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.
Question to leaders on the EPA sector..When was the Constitution changed to where your sector can make National laws ? We have 3 well defined powers and they are separate and yet work together when they are operated legally… I do not find the EPA in either one of these powers… ALso the Congress is the one that make the laws of this Nation…It is government gone astray like having a unit like the EPA in service and rattling its swords in threats against We the People… People like this have got to go !!!!
This is Government excess and abuse of power . This broad needs to be slapped down hard and bitch slapped . She is an employee of the people and this is America not some Communist Dictatorship . Nort yet we arent .The EPA’s science is pure BS built on out of date data and information proved wrong time and again . They are so intent on power trips they refuse to accept that the so called Global Warming is a naturally re occurring event that has happened in past . Hope this broad freezes her ass off in the next ice age or global cooling stage
just another bully with power and it wont lasty long
Stand up for our Rights.
Instead of firing our military, defund and get rid of the Epa
Bring it Bitch, we’re waiting for your scanky ass!!
The NAZI’s said the same thing in Germany.
ABOLISH THE CORRUPT EPA…NOW!!! THEY ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY!!!!!!
And we are coming for you also Maam
Who’s the Dike ?