Biden covers up bogus reasons for attacks on fossil fuels

 Washington Examiner:

Since at least the George W. Bush administration, the environmental Left and the Democratic Party have continually screamed that conservatives and Republicans are anti-science.

According to this group, conservatives ignore scientific evidence of risks to the environment and human health so as to avoid imposing costly pollution reduction requirements on business. This is nonsense. Quite to the contrary, both the Bush and Trump administrations tried to ensure that the process by which Environmental Protection Agency regulations are reviewed conforms to how science actually works. For instance, on Clean Air Act science review panels, both the Bush and Trump administrations included scientists from private labs and companies, not just EPA-funded scientists at academic centers created by EPA. And the Trump administration promulgated a rule that would have required that the data about health risks said to support EPA regulations was publicly available so that other researchers could ensure that results about risk could actually be replicated.

In its assault on fossil fuels, the Biden administration's EPA has moved rapidly to make sure that the scientific basis for EPA regulations is no longer subject to independent review and outside verification.

The first such move allows EPA to rely upon secret science: evidence that nobody other than EPA’s chosen experts will ever get to see. The second such move is to return to a practice, adopted during the Obama administration and then ended by the Trump administration, of appointing mostly EPA-funded scientists to serve on the science advisory panels (such as the Clean Air Act Scientific Advisory Committee) that review the evidence said to support EPA regulations. With these two changes, the "science" supporting EPA regulations requiring further reductions in the emissions of air pollutants such as ozone and fine particulates (dust particles less than 2.5 microns in diameter) will come from a production process whereby EPA funds research that uses secret data to generate conclusions. Conclusions, that is, of which the validity will be reviewed by boards composed almost entirely of the very same EPA-funded researchers who generated the conclusions.

This process is completely at odds with how the scientific process is supposed to work. The validity of scientific results is established only after other researchers obtain the data generating published results and then do their own independent analysis to confirm that those results can be reproduced. This process relies upon data sharing. EPA's regulations can now be based on data that is never subjected to testing by outside scientists.

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Why should we trust the anti-energy left when they are trying to hide their rationale for attacking fossil fuels.  If they have a case make them make it public.