Experts Are for Facts, Amateurs Are for Analysis
President Trump and his aides are willing to let specialists gather data, but trust only their own conclusions.
During testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt described a new proposed rule that would require the agency to publish the data behind all studies used to guide clean-air and clean-water regulations.
“It seems to me it’s common sense that as we do rule making at the agency, we base it upon a record, scientific conclusions, that we should be able to see the data and methodology that actually caused those conclusions,” Pruitt said. “We’re agnostic about who adopts the study.”
As , the rule threatens to upend the environmental rule-making process. A cynical (and perhaps accurate) reading would be that Pruitt is seeking to sandbag
