Environmentalists want EPA to take into account the latest science on how a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids affect bee populations.
By Jeffrey MervisWhat is a public document? That question is the latest battleground in the yearslong war over proposed changes in what kinds of studies and data the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will allow to be considered in shaping regulations.The changes, which EPA says are meant to promote transparency and “sound science,” have been fiercely criticized by the research community and environmental groups.
They would generally bar the agency from using data that are not publicly available. But critics worry that excluding those data will allow EPA to ignore studies that rest on