lying, corrupt bastards using their authority to screw the country.
Seven months after being subpoenaed by Congress, Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy conceded that her agency does not have - and cannot produce - all of the scientific data
used for decades to justify numerous rules and regulations under the Clean Air Act.
In a March 7th letter to House Science, Space and
Technology Committee chairman Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), McCarthy admitted
that EPA cannot produce all of the original data from the 1993
Harvard Six Cities Study (HSC) and the American Cancer Society’s (ACS)
1995 Cancer Prevention Study II, which is currently housed at New York
University.
Note this bullshit:
However, despite “multiple interactions with the third party owners of
the research data in an effort to obtain that data,” McCarthy wrote,
some of the data subpoenaed by the committee “are not (and were not) in
the possession, custody or control of the EPA, nor are they within the
authority to obtain data that the agency identified.”
Translation: "We don't have the data, and we can't get it, and WE DID NOT HAVE IT."
And yet more lawyerly ways to try to avoid saying "We're lying shits":
“EPA has not withheld any data in our possession that is responsive to
the subpoena,” McCarthy stated. “The EPA acknowledges, however, that the
data provided are not sufficient in themselves to replicate the
analyses in the epidemiological studies, nor would they allow for the
one to one mapping of each pollutant and ecological variable to each
subject.”
"We gave you what we HAD, but we couldn't give you all the data we said we had but actually didn't, so we're NOT lying and dodging. Really!"
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