EPA Science Advisers Want Chance To Comment On Transparency Plan

"Don’t do anything until we get a chance to weigh in.

The 44-member Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has asked EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt not to revise or finalize a controversial proposed rule on data transparency until it can analyze it and offer comments.

“[T]he precise design of the proposed rule appears to have been developed without a public process for soliciting input specifically from the scientific community,” states the 28 June letter signed by SAB Chair Michael Honeycutt, who directs the Toxicology Division of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in Austin."

David Malakoff reports for Science June 29, 2018.

Source: Science, 07/04/2018