The EPA’s Secret Science
As incredible as it sounds, the EPA enforces all its oppressive regulations based on science that can’t be publicly accessed by the taxpayers who paid for it.
That’s right, you can’t take a look at evidence used to incriminate you for any regulation the EPA states you violate.
However, all that may soon change as the House voted 241 to 175 this month, mostly along party lines, that would prohibit the EPA from issuing regulations based on scientific data not made public. Of course, Obama has promised to veto the bill should it pass the Senate.
The House also voted to reform the EPA’s science board:
Yesterday, the House approved, on a 236 to 181 vote, H.R. 1029, the EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act. It would change the membership and procedural requirements for the agency’s federally chartered advisory panels of scientists and economists.
Backers have said the bills are necessary to make EPA’s regulatory processes more transparent and inclusive.
“Many Americans are unaware that some of the EPA’s most expensive and burdensome regulations, such as its proposed ozone rules, are based on data that not even the EPA has seen,” said Representative Lamar Smith (R–TX), the head of the House science committee, in a statement today. The secret science bill, he stated, “ensures that the decisions that affect every American are based on independently-verified, unbiased scientific research, instead of on secret data that is hidden behind closed doors.”
“We aren’t telling the Science Advisory Board what to say,” said Representative Kevin McCarthy (R–CA) during yesterday’s debate on the House floor. “We aren’t telling the EPA what to do. But … true science demands clarity and impartiality. The Science Advisory Board lacks both, and that needs to change.”
Source: sciencemag.org
EPA Chief Gina McCarthy was scolded by Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions this month for pushing new global warming regulations without knowing the most basic of data regarding their climate change models. The EPA’s 2016 budget proposal is $8.6 billion, which is $452 million more than in 2015.
McCarthy was understandably upbraided by Sessions because she should not explain data he presented to her that indicates the EPA’s climate models were wrong.
“This is a stunning development, that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency — who should know more than anybody else in the world, who is imposing hundreds of billions of dollars in cost to prevent this climate temperature increase — doesn’t know whether their projections have been right or wrong,” stated Sessions.
The EPA and virtually all of the federal governments alphabet agencies have become so large that they have become a de facto 4th branch of the U.S. government that isn’t accountable to anyone. Our Constitution and our nation is being completely usurped by these agencies.
Post when this actually happens
The EPA is not an elected part of government so they can shut the hell up!
Not in my back yard lol I’ll shoot lol
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