AUTO INDUSTRY/ENVIRONMENT/EPA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration will ratchet down its forecast of the number of lives that would be saved by rolling back the Obama vehicle fuel efficiency standards, an administration source told POLITICO. The change would reduce one of the main benefits that the administration had touted in a rule change it proposed in August, and it comes after EPA and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration got pushback for their estimate that 1,000 highway deaths would be averted annually by freezing the vehicle standards. The two agencies are now revising assumptions used in the analysis that produced the figure in response to comments from experts criticizing their methodology. Chiefly, the agencies are reconsidering how long motorists hang onto their vehicles and how many miles they would drive with new, more fuel efficient cars. The interaction of those inputs would reduce the amount of avoided fatalities, the administration official said.”
–Zach Colman, “Trump administration to pare fatality reduction from car efficiency plan,” Politico, December 3, 2018 2:03 pm