EPA's Science Advisory Board rebukes Pruitt over rule combating 'secret science'

The Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board unanimously agreed Thursday to vet a controversial proposal from Administrator Scott Pruitt that would block the agency from using scientific studies that do not make public the raw data used in research.

Members of the 44-person board, a panel of outside researchers and experts who review the quality of the science the EPA relies on, concur with critics who say the proposed rule would restrict the science the EPA could use when drafting environmental regulations.