EPA in a rush to save auto rules from Trump

[Geee]

Washington Examiner:

The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday surprised business groups by rushing out a final study on fuel efficiency standards for automobiles to ensure they stay in place once President-elect Trump comes into office Jan. 20.

 

The Auto Alliance, the auto industry's lead trade group, said it was the wrong move by the Obama administration, calling the assessment — made before scheduled in 2017 — a rush job that they plan to take up with the incoming Trump administration and Congress next year.

 

"This extraordinary and premature rush to judgment circumvents the serious analysis necessary to make sure the [fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas] standards appropriately balance fuel efficiency, carbon reduction, affordability and employment," the Auto Alliance said.

[RandyM]

I believe Trump will have a phone and a pen, too. Last minute rules can be just as easily undone as long standing ones.