"EPA’s use of science to come under committee’s microscope"
Alan Krupnick is quoted in Roll Call on EPA's planned censorship on science.
Alan Krupnick was quoted in Roll Call on the EPA's planned censorship on science. Listed below is the full quote:
“A House committee may take aim Wednesday at the EPA’s plan to censor the science it uses in its policies by forcing the disclosure of private medical and health records, a step science advocacy groups say would undermine government research.
‘How does it impact the work that EPA scientists do on risk assessments?’ Halpern said. ‘How does it affect research on established and emerging threats to public health?’ The sweep of the proposal could be incredibly broad, he said, and block EPA from considering ‘any kind of research that involves humans.”’
Alan Krupnick, a senior fellow at Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan organization, said there is a budding trend for more data — codes, models, raw information — to be included in scientific journals, such as Nature or Science. But he firmly disputed the idea pressed into the public domain by former Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, and ex-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt that scientists were writing regulations behind closed doors and manipulating figures without third-party corroboration.
Some conservatives and industry groups backed Smith’s so-called ‘Secret Science’ bill in 2017. ‘The notion that it’s secret, that there’s some cabal,’ Krupnick said, ‘is just really ridiculous and offensive to the scientific process.’”
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