House approves bill to force public release of EPA science

That is the actual headline for the article: Here

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A bill approved Wednesday by the GOP-controlled House would require that data used to support new regulations to protect human health and the environment be released to the public.

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In other words, without this legislation, the EPA can (because it does) enact regulations "to protect human health and the environment" and if the public asked to see the supporting data/research, all the EPA has to do is say:



As infuriating as the internet privacy bill that passed was/and is (to the extent it's such a bill), the fact that this only passed the House 228-194 is unreal. I cannot wait for the bullshite reasons to oppose this to come out of the Senate.