EPA chief Gina McCarthy has a warning to a “small but vocal group of critics” who challenge the EPA’s science: “we’re coming for you.”
“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 stated.
Rep. Sen. David Vitter (LA) and Rep. Lamar Smith (TX) have been pressing the EPA to release their ‘scientific’ data, which McCarthy promised to do, but so far has failed to live up the that promise. Now she is on the attack.
“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.
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” 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, a bunch of more WORTHLESS JACK-ASSES think they can rule over us like they were Gods or World leader, big bunch of c**p…
lets stand together and get rid of them as we did with the illeagals
Obama out and out all the ones he put in office- her or he which ever she is claiming to be-
Talk about a out of control government, we have it here. It is way pass the time to hang all these Liberal scum bastards as they are all guilty of treason and trying to destroy the USA.
Gina is a dope…..life goes on !!
Dismantle the EPA !! They are taking everything thing they can —even if they have to make things up to get what they want.
wow , how in the world it has come to this but it seems like a lot of the government acronyms have gone bonkers but that is probably what they said about all those acronyms in Nazi germany,
It’s because they have no science 2 back it up its just what they want for there political agenda there all just a bunch of crooks and ass clowns
It’s not about the environment. It’s about government control by a bunch of control freaks. 🙁
* 07/11/14 * They are all WHORE’S! * Time to STANDUP! to them *