Carlson lied to the Transportation Department about her salary when she worked for a climate law company. A nominee to lead a lesser-known part of the Department of Transportation responsible for safety has said in secret talks that, if approved by the Senate, she will use her post to push for stricter climate policies.
The watchdog group Government Accountability & Oversight (GAO) discovered and shared with Fox News Digital an email from 2021 showing that an environmental law expert whom Biden chose in February to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) was bragging about being hired by the administration to oversee climate standards for cars and trucks.
When considering the failure of agenda-driven banks, the new and constant threat of winter and summer blackouts, and an absent Transportation Secretary waving off disasters when he’s not ignoring them, “even the most narrow-minded White House might see a sign that, just maybe, government appointments are jobs with responsibilities, not taxpayer-funded activist positions,” GAO attorney Chris Horner was quoted as saying by Fox News Digital.
Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington, who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has said the rules “will only add to the cost of new cars, robbing people of safe, affordable vehicles.” The White House blames her for the agency’s funding increase of 50% in the 2021 infrastructure bill, which she helped pass.
In 2017 and 2018, under Carlson’s leadership, his law company sued several major fossil fuel companies with the help of funding from anonymous donors. Sher Edling, a product of California, has wrecked havoc in more than a dozen major American cities. Carlson included “free consulting for Sher Edling in cases against oil companies” as one of her extracurriculars on her UCLA application for the class of 2020.
Carlson omitted her acquaintance with Sher Edling from her 2021 ethics report for the Transportation Department. Fox News Digital was told by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that “Safety is the top priority for the U.S. Department of Transportation and NHTSA.” The White House says that on March 27 they sent Carlson’s candidate to head the NHTSA to the Senate. According to the White House, the NHTSA has “finalized 19 rules to advance vehicle safety since January 2021” and “oversaw 932 vehicle safety recalls that affected more than 30.8 million vehicles in the United States.”