EPA’s Pruitt Faced Hill Pressure on Glider Truck Rule Repeal (1)

The EPA’s yearslong, tenuous effort to ease air pollution limits on trucks with rebuilt engines can be traced back to a day early in Scott Pruitt’s tenure as administrator.

Just two months on the job, Pruitt was handed a memo at a “meet the Cabinet” event from former Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.), then chairwoman of the House Budget Committee, urging him to undo the Environmental Protection Agency’s limits on “glider kits"—new truck chassis and cab assemblies built for used engines and transmissions.

A week later, Aaron Ringel, deputy associate administrator for the EPA’s Office of Congressional Affairs and ...