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Real Clear Policy: EPA Finally Takes 'Fishbowl' Approach to Regulation

05/10/2018
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Real Clear Policy
By Dan Byers
May 9, 2018

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took an important and long overdue step to improve transparency at the agency when it announced that it will no longer rely upon non-public data as a basis for its rules and regulations. It may come as a surprise that such a common sense action is even needed in the first place. But, in fact, the EPA has long relied on non-public studies to justify a lengthy list of costly air regulations.

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