"Harvard University is working on an international survey that researchers believe could revolutionize the world's understanding of how buildings affect public health.

There's just one problem: Because of a change to scientific standards proposed by Administrator Scott Pruitt, EPA regulators likely won't be able to use the study's findings to better protect Americans.

"This speaks to the central issue with that regulation," Harvard's Joseph Allen, the principal investigator of the global buildings study said of EPA's regulatory science transparency proposal.

"All of our work, of course, is peer reviewed in top academic journals and has gone through that process that we've all used for many decades now," said Allen, who is also co-director of Harvard's new Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment, or C-CHANGE. "But it has the same limitations as all of our research in this domain.""

Corbin Hiar reports for Greenwire June 18, 2018. [2]