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 agencys scientific data: were 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 its not really about EPA science or secrets. Its about challenging the credibility of world renowned scientists and institutions like Harvard University and the American Cancer Society, McCarthy said, according to Politico.
Its about claiming that research is secret if researchers protect confidential personal health data from those who are not qualified to analyze it and wont 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 whove 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.
EPAs leadership is willfully ignoring the big picture and defending EPAs 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.
Were not asking, and weve 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 EPAs 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 EPAs claims.
More like the sheep from the sheepdogs.
I've had countless morons even on this site defend the EPA, BLM ,NaSA and government schools. and then even on this site they bash me for daring to point out that these gov agencies must be abolished
why do democrats trust government so much ? gov is unaccountable
Hey EPA. Shut up and go away. You are a useless political money hole...........
Actually, they came to this country to flee a government that did what this government proposes to do.
Look up Trofim Lysenko.
This is nothing more than Lysenko’s nonsense gussied up for American consumption.
I'm thinking this more along the lines of an Argumentum ad Verecundiam.
Actually , again in my opinion, the issue was: Can the Government, at the point of a gun, with the intent to apply deadly force to those who object, take the property and the fruits of the labor of a free citizen? There were those who had no problem with that. I suppose that if it had been their property, they may have felt different. and there were those who did not think so.
Now if it had been the County Sheriff with a writ to seize, it would have been a horse of a different color. Not 200 bloodthirsty mercs.
> Argumentum ad Verecundiam
Never heard of that one before, but after having looked it up, I must agree with you.
You will be on the line to board the train before you will EVER see the communists and fascists on the unemployment line.
They are here to stay.
I suspect you’re right, but I’d sure love to see someone give it a shot...
Defund them....
They will cough up the data...
O’ Wait....we are taking a GOP House....
Btw, the EPA was created by an EO...so Congress does not have the authority to shut it down....
Hahahahaha, no, her manhood is apparent.
So the EPA is fully weaponized against the party out of power.
” Cut off her damned funds, every penny until she learns. “
How do you get it through the Senate?
Even then, Obama would veto it.
The EPA has got to go. They hear the drums beating. A bureacracy will protest itself.
Newt was right in wanting to shut the EPA down and create an agency to work with states to come up with workable solutions to environmental problems.
Understood.
The threat of the iron fist of retribution is needed when the laughably phony science (and the reality of 17+ years of no climate change) can't support the scam's Marxist prescription remedies.
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