EPA’s ‘secret science’ plan is back, and critics say it’s worse

EPA’s ‘secret science’ plan is back, and critics say it’s worse

4 years ago
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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/epa-s-secret-science-plan-back-and-critics-say-it-s-worse

Critics are blasting a revised Trump administration plan to give the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) broad power to ignore research results when setting public health rules if officials decide the underlying data are not adequately accessible to the public.

The draft document, a version of which was leaked to The New York Times this week, supplements a 2018 data transparency proposal from EPA that was harshly criticized by scientific, environmental, and patient groups, prompting the agency to say it would issue a revision. Although EPA said in a 12 November statement that the leaked document is not the final version it sent earlier this month to the White House for review, the agency did not dispute its core substance.