House GOP Investigates EPA Scientific Integrity Policy, Union Contract

House Republicans are investigating EPA’s still-unfinished scientific integrity policy and a related employee union contract, accusing Democrats of seeking to entrench an anti-GOP agenda among the workforce in the guise of protecting science from political interference, even as the agency’s watchdog and environmentalists say the non-binding policy is too weak. In a Nov. 14 letter to Administrator Michael Regan, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House oversight committee, says the panel “is investigating the Biden-Harris Administration’s establishment of government-wide...