Posted on 04/29/2014 7:39:39 AM PDT by servo1969
Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy has issued a warning to Republicans who continue to question the integrity of the agency’s scientific data: we’re coming for you.
McCarthy told an audience at the National Academy of Sciences on Monday morning the agency will go after a “small but vocal group of critics” who are arguing the EPA is using “secret science” to push costly clean air regulations.
“Those critics conjure up claims of EPA secret science — but it’s not really about EPA science or secrets. It’s about challenging the credibility of world renowned scientists and institutions like Harvard University and the American Cancer Society,” McCarthy said, according to Politico.
“It’s about claiming that research is secret if researchers protect confidential personal health data from those who are not qualified to analyze it — and won’t agree to protect it,” she added. “If EPA is being accused of secret science because we rely on real scientists to conduct research, and independent scientists to peer review it, and scientists who’ve spent a lifetime studying the science to reproduce it — then so be it.”
Republicans Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana and Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas have led the charge on pressing the EPA to make publicly available the scientific data behind its clean air regulations. McCarthy promised she would make such data publicly available during her confirmation process last year. Now her refusal to cough up the data has angered Republicans.
“EPA’s leadership is willfully ignoring the big picture and defending EPA’s practices of using science that is, in fact, secret due to the refusal of the agency to share the underlying data with Congress and the American public,” said Vitter.
“We’re not asking, and we’ve never asked, for personal health information, and it is inexcusable for EPA to justify billions of dollars of economically significant regulations on science that is kept hidden from independent reanalysis and congressional oversight,” Vitter added.
The EPA has used non-public data to justify 85 percent of $2 trillion worth of Clean Air Act regulation benefits from 1990 to 2020. The agency also uses such datasets to assert that Clean Air Act regulation benefits exceed the costs by a 30:1 ratio originates from the secret data sets.
House Republicans have backed a bill that would block the EPA from crafting regulations based on “secret” data. Republicans argue that such data was used to craft onerous regulations, like one promulgated in late 2012 to reduce soot levels.
That soot rule is supposed to yield $4 billion to $9 billion in benefits per year, while costing from $50 million to $350 million, but the data backing that claim up is not publicly available.
“For far too long, the EPA has approved regulations that have placed a crippling financial burden on economic growth in this country with no public evidence to justify their actions,” said Arizona Republican Rep. David Schweikert, who introduced the bill.
“Virtually every regulation proposed by the Obama administration has been justified by nontransparent data and unverifiable claims,” said Smith, who cosponsored the bill. “The American people foot the bill for EPA’s costly regulations, and they have a right to see the underlying science. Costly environmental regulations should be based on publicly available data so that independent scientists can verify the EPA’s claims.”
That sounds like a threat by a Domestic Terrorist, doesn't it?
This woman should be fired immediately for that attitude.
The government agencies should NEVER ‘go after’ people who disagree with them.
They should simply make infomration public. People are then able to agree or disagree at their leisure, and vote accordingly.
You questioning her manhood ? /S
Head on a platter time.
> It’s about challenging the credibility of world renowned
> scientists and institutions like Harvard University and the
> American Cancer Society,” McCarthy said, according to
> Politico.
Argumentum ad baculum.
Not a fact or splinter of logic to be found anywhere in it.
Typical liberal approach. She can’t help it, she has been brainwashed since birth. Truth is not in her vocabulary.
Why does this administration have to many shriveled up old hags?
Congress has allowed this and from all the other agencies too. Her paycheck is not threatened at all and she knows it. They will continue to allow it. The bureaucrats have much more power than Congress.
We’re coming after you…?
Aye...
I would hope that the Bundy incident woke the Patriots up. That is one of the reason that the Government surrogates , plants, and agents on this forum went after him tooth and nail. That was probably the silver lining to an otherwise black cloud. It separated the sheep from the goats.
Right in one.
'Tis what separates us from a Banana Republic.
The USA is looking more and more 3rd world, every day.
No, she has a bigger set of balls that the entire Republican Party. And neither do I question the manhood of the Republican Party. They have more than amply demonstrated time and time again that they have none.
“Virtually every regulation proposed by the Obama administration has been justified by nontransparent data and unverifiable claims,” said Smith, who cosponsored the bill. “The American people foot the bill for EPA’s costly regulations, and they have a right to see the underlying science. Costly environmental regulations should be based on publicly available data so that independent scientists can verify the EPA’s claims.”
And, right there is the crux of the issue, today. The crap regulations coming out of this criminal enterprise administration are based on whatever crap logic they choose to employ. If the science is sound, there should be NO EXCUSE for not releasing it. That would silence critics across the political spectrum.
My Spidey-Sense tells me there is no such defensible science to be found...
OK, had to check for “semi-satire”, because this is another case of a liberal/leftist actually telling the truth about their goals -
they are going to “go after”, ie, punish with government power,
those who disagree with them. This is what liberals want, deep down in the core of their ideology. It’s THE reason to obtain power.
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