EPA’s Absence From House EV Hearing Raises Eyebrows

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A line of electric vehicles of the model Y during the start of the production at Tesla's "Gigafactory" in Gruenheide, southeast of Berlin, on March 22, 2022. Patrick Pleul/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

A former Department of Transportation general counsel under Donald Trump questioned the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) absence from a House hearing on the agency’s expansive new tailpipe emissions standards.

“I would expect they probably briefed the press about the rule when they published it so that they could get favorable stories in the press, so I think they can brief Congress,” said Steve Bradbury, now a distinguished fellow at The Heritage Foundation.