The EPA has issued an update to its scientific integrity policy just days before President-elect Donald Trump returns to office, strengthening protections against abuses alleged during his first administration.
Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency was dogged by allegations that political officials meddled in agency science to reach the outcomes they wanted. Shortly after President Joe Biden took office, the agency alleged “political interference as well as infringement of authorship and the scientific independence of the authors’ conclusions.”
Updates to the new policy include the adoption of a federal government-wide definition of scientific integrity, descriptions of the EPA’s roles and responsibilities to ...
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