The Trump administration failed to do a cost-benefit analysis to assess air qual...
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration failed to do a cost-benefit analysis to assess air quality or take into account the impact on children’s health when it sought to eliminate pollution limits on heavy-duty trucks with rebuilt engines, according to a report from an EPA watchdog on Thursday.
The vehicles known as “glider trucks” have a used engine, transmission and rear axle in a new chassis and cab assembly. Under rules finalized under former U.S. President Barack Obama in 2016, nearly all heavy-duty trucks must use more efficient, less polluting engines as the glider trucks would effectively be phased out by 2021. The glider trucks emit up to 450 times more diesel particulate matter and up to 43 times more smog-forming nitrogen oxides than new trucks, the EPA has said.
EPA told the inspector general’s office it anticipated making a decision about whether it will move ahead with the repeal in 2020. The EPA told the office it is “committed to the transparency of the rulemaking process and believes that public input is critical to improving regulations,” but declined to comment further.
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