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Comment on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Proposed Rule, which is misnamed “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science” by May 18, 2020. Related information, Open Docket Folder and comment here: https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=EPA-HQ-OA-2018-0259

“Comment submitted by Ronnie Levin et al., Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health

We appreciate the opportunity to provide comments on EPA’s supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking, “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science”.

We submitted comments opposing the initial proposal in 2018, along with the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, the National Academies of Sciences, the American Lung Association, the American Association for the Advancement of the Sciences, and other leading public health, medical and scientific organizations.

To date, EPA has yet to respond to those comments or engage with these affected stakeholders. EPA’s supplemental proposal does not address the substantive scientific, technical and legal issues raised in the earlier public comments and the original…