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Message From: Sent: To: Subject: Myron Ebell [Myron.Ebell@cei.org] 4/30/2018 3:13:59 PM Myron Ebell [Myron.Ebell@cei.org] Cooler Heads Coalition next meeting reminder and EPA's secret science reforms The Cooler Heads Coalition will hold its May strategy meeting on Monday, 14thMay, beginning at 12 noon at CEI, 1310 L Street, N. W., Seventh Floor. Please e-mail or ring me at ' ' ' E x . 6 ]with questions or agenda items. EPA's Scientific Transparency Reforms: EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt on 24thApril announced a proposed rule to end the use of secret science (and make other science reforms) in EPA's regulatory process. The press release is here: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa.-administraior--pruitt-proposes-mle-strengthenscience-used-epa-regulations. The link to the proposed rule is at https://www.ei3a. gov/iiewsroora/proposed-yiile-strengthening-fransparenev-regulatorv-science. One week before Pruitt's announcement, the National Association of Scholars published an important study by David Randall and Christopher Welser on The Irreproducibility Crisis o f Modern Science. Here is the link: htips://www.Das.org/proiec-ts/irreprodiicibilitv report. Pruitt deserves lots of credit and so do many people who have worked for decades for scientific transparency. I'll mention only two here: Steve Milloy of JunkScience.com and Representative Lamar Smith, Chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. Steve, a charter member of the Cooler Heads Coalition, has ongoing coverage of the controversy at JunkScience.com. Here is Chairman Smith's statement: https://science.hou.se.gov/news/pressreleases/sniitfa-femarks-adniinistfator-pmitt-s-seientific^ansparencv-annoimcement. The blowback from environmental pressure groups and the junk science community has been amusing to watch. They are all for transparency and reproducibility, but not for requiring it when using junk science to justify costly new rules. Here are some examples: http://thehill.com/opinion/energ\f--environment/384898-epa-proposal"Will"hohble"good-scienceand-harra-american-families https://s3.amazonaws.com/ucs-documents/science-and-democracy/secreEscience-letter~4~23~ 2018.pdf; https://www.popsci.com/epa-transparency~public-health-data Here are three news stories that toe the party line: https://www.washiDgtonpost.com/Dews/eDergv-environmeDt/wp/2018/04/24/pruitt-to-u.nveil" controversial-transparencv-rule-limitmg-what-research-epa-can~ use/?noredi reef=on&utni tenure 29e5569ee37d https://www.huffingtonpost. coni/entry/prui it-epa-transparencv-rul eseience us 5adf44a8e4b07560O95fbl6 Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 5 ED 002061 00071249-00001 http://www.latimes.com/poIitics/la-na-pol-epa-scieDce~20180424-storv.htni Although it isn't easy to argue against scientific transparency, the campaign against EPA's reforms is going to be intense. We will need to gear up to counter the mis-information from the environmental pressure groups and spread by the mainstream media. Angela Logomasini, my CEI colleague, does a good job in this article published on the Hill blog: http://thehilI.eosn/oi3snioii/eiiergy--envtroiisiieiit/38541 l- pruitts-rule-ending-secret-seience-ispro-sclence-pro-eonsismer Myron Ebell Director, Center for Energy and Environment Competitive Enterprise Institute 1310 L Street, N. W., Seventh Floor Washington, DC 20005, USA Ex. 6 Tel direct: (j Tel mobile:! i--------------------- ---------------- -------i E-mail: Myron.fbeii(atcei.org Stop continental drift! Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 5 ED 002061 00071249-00002