EPA Faces New Wave Of Criticism Over Controversial Science Rule Proposal

July 16, 2018
EPA is facing a new wave of criticism over its controversial proposal to require the use of publicly available data to justify its major rules, posing an early test for the agency's new acting administrator, Andrew Wheeler, and the extent to which he may be willing to drop or soften a plan developed by his predecessor, Scott Pruitt. It is "unclear if, when or how the [rulemaking] process would proceed," Paul Billings of the American Lung Association (ALA) told a...


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