The EPA has drafted a proposal that would all but make it impossible to enact public health regulations
a proposal called “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science,” which sounds well and good, but, of course, does the exact opposite of what the title suggests. According to the proposal, in order for an academic study’s conclusions to be considered, scientists would be required to disclose all of their raw data, including confidential medical records.
Public health experts warned that studies that have been used for decades...might be inadmissible when existing regulations come up for renewal. For instance, a groundbreaking 1993 Harvard University project that definitively linked polluted air to premature deaths, currently the foundation of the nation’s air-quality laws, could become inadmissible.
“This means the EPA can justify rolling back rules or failing to update rules based on the best information to protect public health and the environment, which means more dirty air and more premature deaths,”Times.deputy director for the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, was even more blunt in his assessment: “It was hard to imagine that they could have made this worse, but they did,” he said. “This is a wholesale politicization of the process.
Industry groups, who would benefit from fewer pesky studies showing that their products or methods might kill people, are naturally thrilled by the whole thing. “Transparency, reproducibility, and application of current scientific knowledge are paramount to providing the foundation required for sound regulations,” the American Chemistry Council wrote in support of the plan.
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