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Secret Science

Wheeler Announces a New ‘Transparency’ Rule That His Critics Say Is Dangerous to Public Health

In one of his final acts, the EPA administrator restricted the agency’s use of research findings based on “secret science,” aka confidential patient health data.

By Marianne Lavelle

Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, listens during a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing, May 20, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Credit: Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images
(Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

How the Harvard Covid-19 Study Became the Center of a Partisan Uproar

By Marianne Lavelle

How a Contrarian Scientist Helped Trump’s EPA Defy Mainstream Science

By Marianne Lavelle

Andrew Wheeler, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, arrives for a House Appropriations Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on March 4, 2020.

EPA’s ‘Secret Science’ Rule Meets with an Outpouring of Protest on Last Day for Public Comment

By Marianne Lavelle

Andrew Wheeler. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Trump EPA’s ‘Secret Science’ Rule Would Dismiss Studies That Could Hold Clues to Covid-19

By Marianne Lavelle

Andrew Wheeler. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Trump’s EPA Fast-Tracks a Controversial Rule That Would Restrict the Use of Health Science

By Marianne Lavelle

Decades-long studies on the impact of air pollution underpin U.S. regulations. Credit: David L. Ryan/Boston Globe via Getty Images

How Trump’s ‘Secret Science’ Rule Would Put Patients’ Privacy at Risk

By Neela Banerjee

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