Dear NRDC Activist,
"Federal scientists should rely on the best-available
science to make decisions that affect our health."
This seems like a notion we can all agree on at face-value — and something
I strongly believe in as a scientist and former EPA staffer. And, if
anything, the COVID-19 crisis has underscored the importance of strong
science for protecting our health and safety.
Yet, even in the midst of a global health crisis, the Trump administration
is rushing forward with a dangerous plan to censor critical science that
protects our health — like medical studies, personal health data, and
clinical reports — severely limiting the EPA's ability to set stronger
limits on pollution that protect our health, our environment, and our
clean air and water.
Trump's EPA is accepting public comments on this proposal, but the
deadline is midnight tomorrow.
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records indicate that you haven't submitted a public comment yet. Can we
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This
is serious. In the midst of the worst public health crisis of our
generation, Trump's EPA has already:
* Rolled back critical public health protections — inviting industrial
polluters to stop monitoring and reporting dangerous air and water
pollution, and to potentially exceed industrial pollution limits
without repercussions
* Finalized plans to gut the Clean Water Act that helps protect drinking
water sources for millions of people
* And rolled back lifesaving clean car standards — strong pollution and
fuel efficiency standards for automobiles that have reduced massive
amounts of toxic air and climate pollution from the nation's cars and
trucks.
And they've continued rolling back other critical public health
protections even after a widely-reported Harvard study found higher death
rates from the coronavirus in areas with more polluted air.
If Trump's EPA is granted the power to censor science, they could leverage
it to roll back even more critical public health protections. And clearly
this pandemic hasn't slowed down their anti-environment rollback agenda.
[ [link removed] ]So please, take action before tomorrow's deadline and submit an urgent
public comment opposing their disastrous anti-science scheme.
Thanks for standing with us at this critical moment.
Sincerely,
Vijay Limaye, Ph.D.
Science Fellow, NRDC
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Don't Let President Trump and his EPA Administrator Censor Crucial Science
and Health Research
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In the midst of a global pandemic, President Trump is attacking science in
an attempt to undermine decades of progress in protecting air, water,
climate, wildlife, and public health.
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Dear NRDC Activist,
Please know that every NRDC supporter is in our thoughts during this
crisis. We are going to get through this together.
I wish I didn't have to email you today about an attack on science, but
the Trump administration leaves me no choice.
If there's one thing the COVID-19 pandemic underscores, it's the critical
importance of strong and sound science that protects public health and
safety.
That's why it's so distressing that — at this perilous moment — the Trump
administration is moving ahead with a new and dangerous "Censoring
Science" rule. This rule would undermine science, scientists, and decades
of progress in protecting our clean air, clean water, and public health.
Trump's EPA is accepting public comments on its proposal right now. Our
goal is to generate 100,000 letters of opposition by the May 18 deadline.
[ [link removed] ]Submit your official public comment
urging the Trump administration to drop its misguided proposal and STOP
attacking science immediately.
NRDC is prepared to wage this fight in court if that's what it takes.
Trump's "Censoring Science" rule — the so-called "Strengthening
Transparency in Regulatory Science" proposal — would restrict the EPA's
use of the best available science in setting new safeguards that protect
our families from dirty air, unsafe drinking water, and dangerous impacts
from climate change.
The proposal gives fossil-fuel-lobbyist-turned-EPA-chief, Andrew Wheeler,
the power to censor the science that underlies our country's environmental
and public health protections.
He claims that the EPA should only consider publicly available data in
making its policies. That may sound reasonable, but here's the reality:
thousands of strong, peer-reviewed scientific studies rely on private,
confidential patient data — medical studies, personal health data, and
clinical reports — which cannot be made public by law.
The net result of the Censoring Science rule is that the EPA will rely
much more on questionable data and research produced by the same polluting
industries the agency is supposed to be regulating.
As a former EPA administrator myself, I can tell you that this proposal
has nothing to do with protecting science. It's about advancing the Trump
administration's agenda of undermining solid science, and rolling back
decades of protections for our environment, our climate, and our public
health. And it's about giving the administration's powerful polluter
allies free rein to "regulate" themselves.
In the midst of a massive, global public health crisis, we deserve a
government that relies on the best available science to protect us against
harm. This proposal does the opposite. In fact, this supplemental proposal
was not even reviewed by the EPA's own Scientific Advisory Board before it
was released to the public, demonstrating the agency's lack of interest in
any meaningful consultation with scientific experts.
[ [link removed] ]Stand with NRDC and help protect the very best science and most
effective safeguards at the EPA: Submit an urgent public comment opposing
Trump's disastrous proposal before the May 18 deadline.
NRDC remains vigilant. We will continue fighting for you, for science, and
for our planet. [ [link removed] ]Please do your part by submitting a comment to the EPA,
opposing this reckless proposal.
Thank you.
[1]Gina
Gina McCarthy
President, NRDC
[2]Gina McCarthy
P.S. Please take precautions to keep yourself, your family and community
safe. Read more from the [ [link removed] ]Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) and the [ [link removed] ]World Health Organization (WHO) for information on how to
take precautions against the COVID-19 threat.
The mission of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is to
safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals, and the natural
systems on which all life depends.
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