Guest column by Kenneth Haapala, President, The Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)“It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe. It is quite another to do so when the environmental problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by careful observations. This is definitely the case with global warming.” - Frederick Seitz, 17th president of the United States National Academy of SciencesThis paper … [Read more...]
Congress moves to improve transparency and accountability of science in environmental regulation
People who, like us, have been concerned that much of the science behind new regulations issued by the federal EPA under the Obama Administration lacked adequate transparency and accountability will be pleased by this press release just out from the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee: Washington---U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, today introduced the Honest and Open New EPA Science Treatment Act of 2017 (HONEST … [Read more...]