New York Times er i nedsmeltning over at USA’s miljøreguleringer skal baseres på ÆGTE videnskab

New York Times Melts Down Over EPA’s Secret Science Ban
By Steve Milloy
April 3, 2018 American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

The New York Times is spittin’ mad at Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt. In just the past week, the paper has attacked Pruitt four times – from the front-page to the editorial page — following his announcement that the agency would not longer be permitted to rely on so-called “secret science” as a basis for taking regulatory action. And at no point in this onslaught has the Times allowed the truth to intervene.

Since 1994, EPA and university researchers it funds have been hiding scientific data from Congress and the public data. EPA has used the data and studies in question since 1997 as the basis for issuing unnecessary and draconian (if not outright punitive) air quality regulations. During the Obama years, EPA relied on these studies to issue regulations that wiped out 94 percent of the market value of the U.S. coal industry. The largest companies were forced into bankruptcy. Thousands of miner jobs were killed, wreaking havoc on communities that depended on the jobs.

In 1994, an EPA external science advisory board known as the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee asked EPA for the data, but the request was ignored by the agency. In 1997, Congress requested the data and was refused. In 1998, Congress passed a law requiring that scientific data relied on by the agency must be made available to the public. But an appellate court held the law unenforceable in 1998.

In 2011, Congress again began politely asking EPA for the data. No luck. So in 2013, Congress issued its first subpoena in 30 years to force EPA to produce the data. Again, no luck. The House then began passing bills ¾ three of them in successive sessions of Congress¾ to bar EPA from relying on secret data to issue regulations. But all got stuck in the Senate, including the current bill known as the HONEST Act. (The secret science sags is told in full in my book “Scare Pollution: Why and How to Fix the EPA” and summarized in my March 27 Wall Street Journal op-ed).

Since Congress can’t or won’t act, Pruitt has taken the reins and recently announced that the agency will no longer rely on studies with secret data.

Læs mere her på JunkScience

Give me (and Scott Pruitt) a break: Compare the trivial allegations against Scott Pruitt with the actual, serious law-breaking of the Clinton and Obama EPA chiefs.