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EPA chief attacks the media in speech to agency science advisers
"I caution you to be careful what you read in the media," Andrew Wheeler warned.
he warned the agency’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) against trusting the media.
“I caution you to be careful what you read in the media,” Wheeler said, concluding his remarks to the public meeting — the first time the SAB has meet in a year.
Wheeler was specifically referring to a tweet by Yahoo News journalist Alexander Nazaryan on Monday which quoted Wheeler telling the National Press Club,
“‘The media does a disservice to the American public’ by reporting on global warming, says EPA head Andrew Wheeler. Wants more positive coverage.”
Under the Trump administration, however,
the EPA has actively worked to rollback environmental protections, often in line with fossil fuel or other industry interests.
Most recently this includes challenge the underlying risk calculations that support clean air rules.
The media has played a critical role in reporting on, and investigating, not just these various policy decisions but also potential ethics controversies and conflicts of interest plaguing the agency.
But Wheeler urged scientists not to trust the media and come to him or other top EPA officials if they had questions or concerns.
This isn’t the first time that the Trump administration’s EPA has “fact-checked” the media or been antagonistic toward reporters.
Last year, reporters from major news outlets, including the Associated Press and CNN, were
banned from attending a summit on harmful chemicals;
one journalist was even forcibly removed by security.
https://thinkprogress.org/epa-wheeler-tells-agency-science-advisors-not-to-believe-the-media-a9d8587fc5f5/
Trash probably has no idea, and doesn't ing care, how the oligarchy's kakistocrats at EPA have destroyed that agency.
