The Hill By Rebecca Beitsch - 03/03/20
EPA revamp of 'secret science' rule will keep limiting research, scientists say
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) walked back a component of one its most controversial proposals Tuesday, weakening an effort that would have restricted the agency from considering scientific studies that don’t make their underlying data public.
But the tweaks are not garnering support from the scientific community, as it expands the 2018 proposal in other ways.
The so-called “secret science†proposal, a nickname given when it was first pushed by former Administrator Scott Pruitt, spurred more than 600,000 comments, many of them critical of the agency for penning policy that would block consideration of some landmark public health research.
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https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/485811-epa-revamp-of-secret-science-rule-will-still-limit-research
