{"id":4538,"date":"2018-08-07T17:03:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T17:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/environment.law.harvard.edu\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2019-04-15T20:03:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T20:03:03","slug":"emmett-clinic-files-comments-opposing-epas-proposed-strengthening-transparency-regulatory-science-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/2018\/08\/07\/emmett-clinic-files-comments-opposing-epas-proposed-strengthening-transparency-regulatory-science-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmett Clinic Files Comments Opposing EPA\u2019s Proposed \u201cStrengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science\u201d Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Emmett Clinic just filed <a href=\"http:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/files\/2018\/08\/Harvard-Comments-re-Docket-ID-No.-EPA-HQ-OA-2018-0259.pdf\">comments<\/a> opposing EPA\u2019s proposal to \u201cStrengthen Transparency in Regulatory Science\u201d on behalf of nearly 100 leaders in science and medicine from Harvard University.\u00a0 The proposed rule would bar EPA from relying on key peer-reviewed scientific and medical studies and would cripple EPA\u2019s ability to fulfill its mandate to protect the public health and safety of Americans.\u00a0 Signatories to the comments urge EPA to withdraw the rule, and include the President of Harvard University, the Presidents and a number of Department Chairs and Chiefs of four of the world\u2019s foremost research and teaching hospitals (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, and Massachusetts General Hospital), the Deans of Harvard\u2019s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, preeminent faculty at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and numerous esteemed research and clinical doctors affiliated with Harvard and its research hospitals.\u00a0 The link to the comment letter is here: <a href=\"http:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/files\/2018\/08\/Harvard-Comments-re-Docket-ID-No.-EPA-HQ-OA-2018-0259.pdf\">Comments on Proposed Rule, Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science, 83 Fed. Reg. 18,786 (Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OA-2018-0259).<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Emmett Clinic just filed comments opposing EPA\u2019s proposal to \u201cStrengthen Transparency in Regulatory Science\u201d on behalf of nearly 100&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinic-publications","category-elp-news-events","category-news","post-archive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}