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.
Another agency is severe need of complete make-over or, failing that, needs to be severely cut, it’s regulations reviewed/rescinded, as appropriate, or the agency abolished. It’s too prone to activist tyranny to be useful any longer.
Just another bull$#%&!@* federal government agency Obama empowered to do anything ping it wants
this bull d**e is out of control she has her payed liers like all the dems do and discards what the real sientist have to say im hopeing in nov the gongess will shut this idiot down
We’re coming for you! Really? Who does this b…… think she is? Are there still real Americans out there or will she be able to get away with this c**p?
Your not big enough to take on we the people. So bring it on.
From the same people that have to be sent memos not to $hit in the hallways of their offices…………….
sounds like a threat and I dont do threats well 🙂
Typical. We have the facts, we don’t have to show you facts, we’ll punish you if you don’t agree with us. Ask Galileo.
Senator Vitter & Rep. Smith…don’t wait for McCarthy to release your research. She never will b/c it doesn’t fit their narrative.
Just take the material & publish it. You have the perfect reason to do it! You can state the amount of time you’ve been waiting for it to be reviewed.
Let’s be quite frank…you information as found someone’s round file & it’s been incinerated a long time ago.
Charge forward!!!
commentmanofYork says:
“Senator Vitter & Rep. Smith…don’t wait for McCarthy to release your research. She never will b/c it doesn’t fit their narrative.
Just take the material & publish it. You have the perfect reason to do it! You can state the amount of time you’ve been waiting for it to be reviewed.
Let’s be quite frank…you information as found someone’s round file & it’s been incinerated a long time ago.
Charge forward!!!”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/epa-oppose-us-will-come/comment-page-14/#comment-344102