"Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee are urging their Republican colleagues to stop a bill aimed at improving scientific transparency at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The bill “would dramatically change what data and scientific research the Environmental Protection Agency could use in fulfilling its mission to protect public health and welfare,” said the Democrats, led by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), in a letter Monday.

The letter comes a day before the panel, led by Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), plans to vote on the measure to stop the EPA from using “secret science” to justify regulations."

Timothy Cama reports for The Hill April 27, 2015. [2]