Welcome to the EPA's star chamber
by Jason Johnston
| April 24, 2021 08:00 AM
Since at least the George W. Bush administration, the environmental Left and the Democratic Party have continually screamed that conservatives and Republicans are anti-science.
According to this group, conservatives ignore scientific evidence of risks to the environment and human health so as to avoid imposing costly pollution reduction requirements on business. This is nonsense. Quite to the contrary, both the Bush and Trump administrations tried to ensure that the process by which Environmental Protection Agency regulations are reviewed conforms to how science actually works. For instance, on Clean Air Act science review panels, both the Bush and Trump administrations included scientists from private labs and companies, not just EPA-funded scientists at academic centers created by EPA. And the Trump administration promulgated a rule that would have required that the data about health risks said to support EPA regulations was publicly available so that other researchers could ensure that results about risk could actually be replicated.
In its assault on fossil fuels, the Biden administration's EPA has moved rapidly to make sure that the scientific basis for EPA regulations is no longer subject to independent review and outside verification.
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