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White House Threatens Veto Over EPA "Secret Science" Bills
sciencehabit writes The U.S. House of Representatives could vote as early as this week to approve two controversial, Republican-backed bills that would change how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses science and scientific advice to inform its policies. Many Democrats, scientific organizations, and environmental groups are pushing back, calling the bills thinly veiled attempts to weaken future regulations and favor industry. White House advisers announced that they will recommend that President Barack Obama veto the bills if they reach his desk in their current form.
It will fall to the EPA to prove their data is reproducible by someone who wishes to not reproduce it. Everything else would be illegal.
Did you read the bills? Where does it say this? I didn't see any such requirement.
So why have this bill at all if it apparently changes nothing?
Where do you get the idea it changes nothing?
The current proposed rulemaking by the EPA, regarding CO2 emissions, is based on claimed "science" which ISN'T:
(A) identified AT ALL, much less specifically,
(B) "publicly available"
(C) available AT ALL for independent analysis, much less attempts to reproduce.
There is an actual reason the bill is titled "secret science". Because that's what EPA has been doing. And which does, in reality, have to stop. This bill is a direct reaction to EPA's unilateral actions which it is not able or willing to show are based on ANY actual science.
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