Articles written by Daniel Wilson

Daniel Wilson, Law360|Mar 19, 2015

Washington (March 18, 2015, 3:40 PM ET) -- The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to narrow the types of scientific data the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency can use to underpin its rulemaking process, in a party-line vote amid strong Democratic opposition. The legislation, H.R. 1030, the Secret Science Reform Act, would require the EPA to base its rules and certain other "covered actions" only on scientific or technical studies that use data that is publicly shared and reproducible by other experts. It passed in a 241...