Glider kits

Government audit finds no evidence that Volvo influenced EPA emissions study.

Results of two audits could affect current quotas of glider truck kits.

If confirmed, the new DOJ deputy could bring with him from DOT potential deregulatory influence.

Glider kit investigations initiated by Democrats and Republicans are expected to be concluded in early 2019.

Tennessee Tech has acknowledged that the results of its controversial glider kit study were “inaccurate.”

The underlying science of glider kit emissions was the topic of a hearing on Thursday in Washington, although opponents of glider kits were not part of the panel.

The Environmental Protection Agency reversed Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s July 6 decision to give glider kit manufacturers relief from a key limitation after fierce push back from environmentalists.

The stay only last until next week, when the EPA will need to respond to a lawsuit brought by environmentalists on the agency’s loosening of glider kit rules.

The Environmental Protection Agency issued a loophole that will allow glider kit manufacturers to avoid certain Obama-era emissions regulations and, effectively, build as many trucks as they deem fit, according to the New York Times.

The controversial study has become a national story and is now under scrutiny of two U.S. Senators who are demanding information from Scott Pruitt’s Nov. 16 proposal to exempt “glider kits” from industry emissions standards.