Correction Please: Greens, Leftists See Red Over EPA Transparency
Item: The New York Times for March 26 reported that the Environmental Protection Agency was then “considering a major change to the way it assesses scientific work, a move that would severely restrict the research available to it when writing environmental regulations.”
Under the proposed policy, the EPA “would no longer consider scientific research unless the underlying raw data can be made public for other scientists and industry groups to examine. As a result, regulators crafting future rules would quite likely find themselves restricted from using some of the most consequential environmental research of recent decades, such as studies linking air pollution to premature deaths or work that measures human exposure to pesticides and other chemicals.”
The reason behind this, said the newspaper, is that “these fields of research often require personal health information for thousands of individuals, who typically agree to participate only if the details of their lives are kept confidential.”
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