WASHINGTON — Public interest groups, state pollution regulators and many automakers are wringing their hands over the Trump administration’s campaign to dilute clean-car standards for the 2021-26 model years.
They can relax. This is “The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight.”
Like the Mafia family in Jimmy Breslin’s 1969 novel who bungled one hit job after another, the White House doesn’t seem to know how to kill regulations it doesn’t like.