Is transparency always a good thing? EPA weighs controversial new rule.
Mar 12, 2020
3 minutes
If a revised rule proposed last week is finalized, the Environmental Protection Agency could soon change how it uses science.
“Transparency” lies at the heart of the controversial proposal. Initially suggested in 2018, the revised version of “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science” would mean that, when drafting environmental and public health regulations, the EPA would give preference to research studies for which the underlying datasets and models are publicly available. In the previous draft, all aspects of a scientific study had to be publicly available
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