Many researchers (or their institutions) are likely to want their work to be EPA usable, even if EPA does not fund it. They will then adopt usability practices from the beginning, which may be a new way of doing research. This is exactly what the open science movement is calling for.
“The President should stand behind loyal public servants like Scott Pruitt or suffer a chilling effect on his Administration’s ability to recruit and retain talented Americans with the courage to make positive change.”
EPA will stop relying on “secret science” in its rule-making process and enter a new era of transparency under a new regulation Administrator Pruitt unveiled at EPA headquarters.
EPA’s proposed data transparency rule will provide for privacy concerns and for concerns from industry over releasing confidential business information.
EPA regulators would only be allowed to consider scientific studies that make their data available for public scrutiny under Pruitt’s new policy.
The use of wildly speculative and extreme modeling is spreading throughout the government, with potentially destructive consequences.