The EPA today will announce a politically-motivated draft policy to restrict the use of science in agency decisions. The draft policy is based on legislation that has died in Congress for several years.
The mainstream scientific and academic organizations that have opposed new restrictions on EPA’s use of science, in alphabetical order:
- Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments
- American Anthropological Association
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (again and again, most recently on Friday)
- American Association of Geographers
- American Chemical Society
- American Geophysical Union
- American Geosciences Institute
- American Institute of Biological Sciences
- American Lung Association
- American Meteorological Society
- American Society for Microbiology
- American Society of Agronomy
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- American Sociological Association
- American Statistical Association
- American Thoracic Society
- American Public Health Association
- Association of American Universities
- Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
- Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
- Biophysical Society
- Brown University
- Consortium for Ocean Leadership
- Consortium of Social Science Associations
- Cornell University
- Crop Science Society of America
- Duke University
- Ecological Society of America
- Entomological Society of America
- Environmental Data Governance Initiative
- Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
- Harvard University
- International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- National Council for Science and the Environment
- The National Postdoctoral Association
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Society for Conservation Biology
- Soil Science Society of America
- Stanford University
- The Ohio State University
- The University of Texas at Austin
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- University of California System
- University of Maine
- University of Maryland
- University of Michigan
- University of Oregon
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Toledo
The mainstream scientific and academic organizations that have supported new restrictions on EPA’s use of science, in alphabetical order:
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The former tobacco industry-paid PR men who support new restrictions on EPA’s use of science, in alphabetical order: