VW’s Dieselgate? Flint, Michigan? Blame wrong-headed EPA, says new article

In Washington, Bob Kozak, writing at advancedbiofuelsusa.info, said of the Flint, Michigan drinking water disaster that “the most hypocritical has been that of Democrats such as Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton heaping all the blame on Michigan Republicans while not saying one word about the deficiencies of the Environmental Protection Agency under the Obama Administration.” Kozak also noted that “Congress has equally been unusually quiet about EPA’s lack of action on VW diesel emissions even though on a technical level EPA knew about the problem.”

In both case, Kozak charged, “independent investigative and enforcement actions by EPA in support of the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts would have prevented these crises.” And he added that “EPA’s removal of calculations (“F” and “R” factors) that properly account for renewable fuel GHG emissions reductions in the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards has placed an artificial cap on potential E10 plus markets.,” while tilting the field “in favor of electric cars by removing the GHG lifecycle analysis for those vehicles. By so doing, the impact of fossil fuel used to produce vehicle charging electricity is removed from electric car GHG accounting. The result? The Zero-Emission vehicle!”

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