In an L.C.A. study conducted by Volkswagen, the company found that driving its ID.3, a small B.E.V. not sold in the United States, more than 120,000 miles in Europe would create about a 26 percent decrease in greenhouse gas emissions compared with a Golf model of a similar size.

According to an L.C.A. study published in 2020, prepared by Ricardo for the U.K.

“I should have known better than to try to have fun with the L.C.A. at a press conference,” Mr. Cuomo said in a radio interview the next day.

Also, the L.C.A. belongs to the socially active National Council of Churches; the other two groups do not.

To do the rewriting, the N.C.C. named a committee, headed by the Rev. Victor Roland Gold of California's Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, a minister in the L.C.A., whose leaders were to reject the book.