Wheeler 'Surprised' By Opposition To EPA Science Transparency Rule

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EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler says he is "surprised" by the strong criticisms of the agency's proposed science transparency rule and suggests in a recent interview that those opposed to rule object to explaining the reasons behind agency rules to the American public. "It's interesting that we've got a lot of pushback on the science transparency rule," Wheeler said on a Feb. 4 podcast hosted by the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a group that advocates for "freely functioning energy markets." "It actually has surprised me the amount of pushback we have got, and I think that's in part by people who are vested in the current regulatory structure of our federal government. And they don't want to necessarily see that transparency, they don't necessarily want to see everything explained to the American public."