EPA Official Finally Testifies to House on Controversial Emissions Rules After Refusal in May
The House is no longer “Waiting for Goffman,” a top Environmental Protection Agency official who appeared before Congress on June 21 after declining to show up to a similar May 17 hearing.
In both cases, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability wanted the Office of Air and Radiation’s Joseph Goffman to discuss his agency’s proposed tailpipe emissions rules.
The EPA anticipates its rules will help drive a mass-scale transition to electric cars in the next decade. It predicts that two-thirds of new light-body vehicles sold in the United States will be electric by 2032.
Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) wasted no time in asking Goffman the obvious question: why didn’t he show up last time?…