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Rep. Gosar Co-Sponsors Bill to Prevent Arbitrary Rule-Making by the EPA

Statement

Date: Feb. 11, 2014
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Science Environment

Today, U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) issued the following statement after announcing his co-sponsorship of the Secret Science Reform Act of 2014 (H.R.4012), legislation that would require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to use public, reproducible science when proposing regulations:

"This bill will eliminate the use of junk science at the EPA, which frequently uses secret studies to justify regulations that fit their job-killing agenda. Not only does this practice result in a lack of transparency, it also leads to hundreds of thousands of jobs being killed across the country by unreasonable regulations. Additionally, hardworking taxpayers are left to pick up the tab for these expensive, and usually worthless, regulations. This bill simply requires the EPA to use scientific studies that are transparent and reproducible when justifying proposed regulations. Only in the federal bureaucracy do you have to legislate such commonsense requirements."


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