Rep. George Brown (D-Calif) introduced a bill on January 6, 1999 to repeal the new law that requires raw data underlying federally funded scientific research to be accessible to the public via the Freedom of the Information Act. The genesis of the law is the EPA's refusal to compel its researchers to turn over data for independent review during its 1997 rulemaking for the new multi-billion dollar air quality standards.
For info on the data access law:
- Click here for the House- Senate Conference Report on the data access law.
- Click here for Senate colloquy on the data access law.
For info on Rep. Brown's bill:
- Click here for H.R. 88 as introduced.
Rep. Brown is not new the world of junk science.
- Click here for Mike Gough's article about Brown titled "Chilling Science at the Science Committee."
- Click here for an earlier Junk Science Home Page article. Brown included my book Science Withoiut Sense in his report titled "Environmental Science under Siege: Fringe Science and the 104th Congress."