U.S. Chamber Urges White House To Block EPA 'Citizen Science' Data ICR

January 28, 2016
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is urging the White House to block an EPA request to collect information to support an expanded use of “citizen science” through which members of the public gather environmental data, with the Chamber warning that the proposal lacks justification and that such data would be of questionable validity. “The use of 'citizen science' and 'crowdsourced' data to make critical regulatory decisions is both unprecedented and highly inappropriate,” the Chamber says in comments on the agency's...


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