The new truck industry is pulling out all the stops to kill off glider trucks. It thought the Obama EPA had accomplished the task. But the Trump EPA is now undoing the Obama rule. So the new truck industry and its radical green allies are breaking china — even pressuring a scientist to accuse himself of misconduct. I have never seen anything like this in my 27+ years of work on EPA issues. Check this out.
If you don’t know what a glider truck is read this.
For background on the glider truck saga, read my January 12 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
Last week, the new truck industry enlisted the New York Times in its bid to stop the Trump repeal of the Obama rule.
Bogus controversy has been generated over a Tennessee Tech University (TTU) study commissioned by Fitzgerald Glider Kits to test glider truck emissions. It appears that TTU-affiliated environmental activists, unhappy with the test results, pressured the principal investigator to accuse himself (you read that right) of scientific misconduct. Click for the February 26 Fitzgerald letter to Tennessee Tech about this.
More details to come on swamp efforts to kill off glider trucks. Stay tuned.