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The Environmental Protection Agency is about to make it a lot harder to use legitimate scientific and medical studies in crafting environmental policy. According to a report published Monday by the New York Times, the agency is expanding its proposed "Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science" rule in a way that could completely dismantle how the agency uses scientific studies. It's the latest salvo in the agency's war on the exact thing it's supposed to protect — the environment.
I guess if you don’t believe the science, it makes sense you would direct the EPA to take steps to ignore it. Clean water and air, who needs it when your 401K is doing good. Climate change is going to be a pay me now or pay me in a big way in the future kind of thing, this administration would rather kick that can down the road, hoping a future administration will be forced to pay the tab.
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