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.
Jail the bitch!!!
Just another example for the EPA over-stepping their boundaries!!! Gina McCarthy needs to be removed for threatening the American people!!! YOU ARE OUT OF LINE GINA MCCARTHY!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t do well with threats.
EPA is passing new hidden law Sept 1 if they don’t get enough complaints by aug 1…white house number 202 456 1111, 202 456 6213
They redefined the clean water act that will include surrounding navigation water to give them power to take your property and it labels water as small as a puddle and they will take your property…
They r using the orwellian power in which go orwellian says, power is not a means, it is an end. dark minds in power will build sinister devices designed to enable them to control…call reps and white house daily…the no of calls will b tallied. .so call again and again to stop this…
NAZIS
I don’t handle threats very well
The Greens: Fascists at work!
EPA like any of the usas government is pretty much rotten to the core,blm epa name them they make their own rules.
$#%&!@* the Butch bitch…
This is OUR United States of AMERICA and have the RIGHT to know EVERYTHING that The E P A is doing and see The FACTS for the REASON they are doing anything !!! NO!!! SECRETS!!! When AMERICANS are the ones PAYING the TAB. Only Criminals would fight so hard to keep the American People in the DARK!!!