The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has sued the Trump administration over the proposed freezing of the Obama administration’s fuel economy standards. JunkScience.com suggests the Trump administration respond to CARB chief Mary Nichols the way she responded to Congress in 1997.
From the New York Times report of the CARB lawsuit:
Nichols wants to “break down their silence and secrecy” because “the public has a right to see all the facts and analysis”
But 22 years ago, Nichols sang a different song.
When Congress requested that EPA provided the scientific data underlying the PM2.5 studies EPA was using to justify the first-ever PM2.5 rules, Nichols wrote to Congress:
We do not believe … there is a useful purpose for EPA to obtain the underlying data.
That’s why Mary Nichols is today’s lay-up winner of Hypocrite of the Day.