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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) political staffers have been working to internally replicate through agency action a bill that would restrict the kind of science that the EPA can use when writing regulations, internal emails show.
EPA head Scott Pruitt met with Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, on Jan. 9, according to a copy of Pruitts public schedule.
Smith, for years, has been pushing to restrict the type of scientific findings accepted by the EPA. His repeatedly sponsored bill, now called the Honest and Open New EPA Science Treatment (HONEST) ACT, would mandate all scientific data and findings be made publicly available before they are used to justify agency regulations. Opponents of the idea say that it would exclude a number of public health studies.
Newly released emails show that Pruitt and his staff are working to essentially replicate Smiths proposal, and spent a majority of February working to finalize the policy.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/384039-internal-emails-show-epa-working-to-limit-agencys-use-of-science
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)by rump officials and corporate whores
why, I dont know
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)Science filtered through a political prism, just like under Stalin
alarimer
(16,245 posts)And that is what they mean by this, of course.