Buried this week beneath coverage of an ‘exhausted” Edward Snowden and Anthony Weiner’s plummeting New York mayoral campaign — or is that Carlos Danger? — was a key House committee hearing into what critics see as the flawed science of the Environmental Protection Agency.

The House Science, Space and Technology Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight hearing probed the EPA’s watershed assessment of Alaska’s Bristol Bay, raising questions about the agency’s use of a hypothetical scenario in trying to gauge the impact of a proposed mine.