by Zack Colman, E&E News reporter As Appearing in Climate Wire Climate skeptics are gaining ground. There's always been a vocal subset of conservatives who cast doubt on climate science, but what were once fringe views among broader Republicans — like warming's a hoax — are enjoying a growing acceptance in the GOP, worrying academics, [...]
On March 27, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent out a press release with the first paragraph and a link to E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and JunkScience.com author Steve Milloy's recent Wall Street Journal op-ed. In the piece, Milloy, an expert on 'junk' and 'political' science, applauds EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt decision to end [...]
by James Delingpole Breitbart President Trump is winning at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). There can be no better proof of this than the latest anguished editorial in the New York Times, lamenting the changes made by EPA administrator Scott Pruitt. The EPA, it claims, is the “epicenter of denial.” Its new regime is “terrified” [...]
by Steve Milloy Junkscience.com Author and E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The New York Times editorialized against EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s move to end secret science at the EPA. Here’s the line-by-line takedown of the Times‘ lies. This morning’s editorial is below. My comments are in [bolded brackets]. Keep in mind, the full story of [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s decision to bring more transparency to the science his agency relies on to issue new regulations has met intense opposition from the left. The New York Times launched a two-pronged offensive against Pruitt’s transparency policy that included an op-ed by the Obama administration’s top [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Author Steve Milloy As appearing in the Daily Signal EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt may be just a lawyer, but so far he has done more to bring sound science to EPA than any scientist ever affiliated with the agency. And, apparently, he’s just getting started. Since taking [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Author As Appearing in the Wall Street Journal The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer rely on “secret” scientific data to justify regulations, Administrator Scott Pruitt announced last week. EPA regulators and agency-funded researchers have become accustomed to producing unaccountable, dodgy science to advance a [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt will soon end his agency’s use of “secret science” to craft regulations. “We need to make sure their data and methodology are published as part of the record,” Pruitt said in an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Otherwise, it’s not [...]
Scott Waldman and Robin Bravender E&E News U.S. EPA chief Scott Pruitt is expected to roll out plans soon to restrict the agency's use of science in rulemakings, pitting him against critics who say it would threaten public health and environmental protections. In a closed-door meeting at the Heritage Foundation on Monday, Pruitt told a [...]
E&E Legal's Senior Policy Fellow Steven J. Milloy today petitioned President Trump seeking federal standards to end the misuse and abuse of epidemiology by regulatory agencies that results in costly and pointless overregulation. Milloy petitioned the President for an Executive branch-wide set of "standards for the use of epidemiology studies by regulatory agencies.” In the letter, Milloy [...]
