Brian Willis: Brian.Willis@sierraclub.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. - On the last day of 2020, the Office of Budget and Management approved an extreme anti-science rule first proposed by disgraced former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, which was designed to prevent peer-reviewed medical studies from being included in future rulemakings to protect public health.Â
In response, Liz Perera, Sierra Club’s Climate Policy Director, released the following statement:
“This is a last ditch attempt by the outgoing Trump Administration to block public health protections in the incoming Biden Administration. The goal of this rule is to allow corporate polluters to continue to pollute in vulnerable communities by restricting the science that will justify stronger clean air and water protections. This rule is as shameful as it is underhanded, and we urge the Biden Administration to quickly work toward overturning it, so that the EPA will once again be a science and public health focused agency."
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