“The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce in the coming days that it will scrap mileage targets the Obama administration drafted in tandem with California that aim to boost average fuel economy for passenger cars and SUVs to 55 miles per gallon by 2025.” And like many federal moves, this one will set up a big fight between Washington and California. LA Times: EPA poised to scrap fuel economy targets that are key to curbing global warming.

+ One of the arguments posited by the EPA’s Scott Pruitt is that undoing the car pollution regulations will actually help the environment. (No, really.)

+ “In his first year at the EPA he has proposed repealing or delaying more than thirty significant environmental rules.” Scott Pruitt fought the EPA when he was the attorney general of Oklahoma. And he’s continued that fight as the org’s leader. The New Yorker’s Margaret Talbot on How the Environmental Protection Agency became the fossil-fuel industry’s best friend.

+ Pruitt has been dogged by news reports about his first class flights. And now there’s this thing about Pruitt getting a great rate on a DC apartment owned by a dude who lobbies the EPA.