Tag Archives: SAFE

EPA and the NHTSA have finally released Part 2 of the Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicle Rule.  Most readers will know that Part 1 of the SAFE rule revoked California’s waiver authorizing it to impose more stringent mileage standards.  Part 2 substantially rolls back the federal fuel-efficiency standards promulgated by the Obama Administration.

I referred to George Orwell on this blog as recently as January,… More

The attack on science by this administration is not news at this point.  Part of that attack has been to increase the number of industry scientists on EPA’s Science Advisory Board.  I have no objection per se to additional industry representation on the SAB; a lot of good science gets done by industry.  There are dangers, though.  When Tony Cox, who is neither a statistician nor an epidemiologist,… More