"EPA is the harsh teacher, and the Transportation Department is the struggling student.

That's the dynamic at play in regulatory comments submitted this week on the Trump administration's proposal to weaken Obama-era clean car rules.

In dozens of instances throughout the document, EPA career staffers criticize DOT political appointees for making faulty assumptions in order to justify the rollback.

Chief among their concerns is that freezing the car rules could mean more deaths from vehicle crashes — not fewer, as DOT claims."

Maxine Joselow reports for ClimateWire August 16, 2018. [2]