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.
If you are tired of this Vote Republican.
don’t think so
$#%&!@* you d**e
Go ahead, we’re locked and loaded.
FU. COME AND GET SOME YOU OBAMA BULLIES.
Government tyranny and fascism at it’s best.
Defund them, wasteful
EPA needs to clean house and get rid of all their narcissistic high level supervisors. The place is crawling with self serving, egotistical wanna be managers who abuse their employees. They also need to be investigated re unnecessary travel to conferences, endless meetings requiring travel all over the the country that the taxpayers fund. They are constantly reorganizing and realigning the troops which is a waste of taxpers money. They never seem to have permanent Directors/Managers so they are constantly relocating them from other regions on an “Acting” basis which means they put out a lot of money to move them say from Las Vegas to RTP, NC , foot their bill in temporary quarters at a whopping price, pay for rental cars, food, daily per diem, phone bills, etc.. Then they are allowed to travel back home every month and return to their temporary duty station all at the expense of the taxpayers. What a waste of money.
THIS FUCIIII BITCH IS WORSE THAN THE ONE FROM IRS BOTH NEED TO BE IN PRISON FOR LYING AND COVERING UP FOR THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD PRESIDENT BHO
WOULD THAT BE A THREAT?????