Posted on 04/25/2018 6:35:36 PM PDT by Pontiac
At an event at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C., that was closed to the press, agency head Scott Pruitt touted the new policy as a way to increase transparency and enable the public to double-check research underpinning environmental regulations. The rule would require the agency to use only studies in which the underlying data are available for public scrutiny when formulating new “significant” regulations, which typically are regulations estimated to impose costs of $100 million or more.
Specifically, the proposed rule says that EPA is seeking transparency for “the dose response data and models that underlie what we are calling ‘pivotal regulatory science.’” The agency does not define pivotal regulatory science, but says it could include studies that “are critical to the calculation of a final regulatory standard or level, or to the quantified costs, benefits, risks, and other impacts on which a final regulation is based.”
“The era of secret science at EPA is coming to an end,” Pruitt said, speaking to an audience that included conservative lawmakers and advocates who have questioned the science underpinning climate and health regulations. “Americans deserve to assess the legitimacy of the science underpinning EPA decisions that may impact their lives.”
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Would this include scientific studies like the Germans are the master race?
He’s ending junk science, so you had better find a different scam to run.
Long past time that these activist scientist put up or shut up.
The new rule makes sense to all but those who seek to push phony science based on unverified and secret data.
Environmentalism is a scam. The ideologies that Environmentalists are affiliated with have murdered millions. They ignore the biggest cesspools of industry on the planet such as India and China while they shake down the U.S. In the end, the consumer always gets screwed by paying for the cost of regulations and eventually most manufacturing leaves the country.
Good. Maybe we can get our damned FREON back, and DDT!
Well Trump has already hit the other big industry killer; corporate taxes.
Now he is hitting the EPA.
I hope he goes after the Army Corp of Engineers too. They stifle development constantly by regulating “Wet Lands”.
Related: Remy’s “People Will Die!” a funny music video ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXWhbUUE4ko
Richard Nixon’s biggest offense has nothing to do with Watergate or Vietnam.
It was the establishment of the EPA without very strong restrictions to limit their activities and to prevent the kind of mission creep that has become so destructive in the last 45+ years.
I agree.
But a close second, maybe a tie would be his creation of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Depends on your definition of science. EPA 'sychobabble and science are mutually exclusive.
"Models" are as useless and damaging through regulatory incompetence as the climate change fraud industry.
And just as monumentally expensive.
Our Federal Rules of Evidence guidelines provide the means to legitimize or eliminate junk science.
The EPA would be totally humiliated in a Court of genuine competent jurisdiction, against actual scientists.
"Models" are for dresses...
Remember NASA's James Hansen? What's he doing now?
Selling used cars?
I love it
Gut the stupid EPA.
Gut ALL FEDZILLA actually
Would this include scientific studies like the Germans are the master race?
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No. Because that would conflict with the precursor to the German plagiarism and present Master Race - Islamic Arabs.
Good - now they won’t be screwing us over because some “scientist/doctor” wrote a treatise on their personal computer detailing how something that had never been looked at by any credible people/agencies was “so terrible that we couldn’t allow people to be exposed to it so we need to take these million acres here and fine this person $10K a day for letting his dog walk through that puddle with dirty feet”....
Exactly. Well said.
"Science" mag continues to publish screed from Partisan Media Shills. Thanks Pontiac.
George E. P. Box, mathematician and professor of statistics at the University of Wisconsin
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