The Environmental Protection Agency’s Scientific Advisory Board delivered a rebuke to Administrator Scott Pruitt by voting Thursday to review the agency’s proposed rollback of car efficiency rules and several other deregulatory actions.
It will scrutinize Pruitt’s move last year to review the Clean Power Plan, the first nationwide attempt to regulate climate pollution from existing power plants and a high-profile target of Pruitt and President Donald Trump.
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