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As scientists begin to find their political voices, three former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency insiders on Wednesday said the Trump administration should not sacrifice environmental quality and the health of the American people \u201cfor a coterie of special-interest stakeholders.\u201d
\nTheir opinion piece was published March 1 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
\n\u201cUnfortunately, sowing doubt about scientific evidence has become a widely-used strategy for delaying or blocking actions that are purported to potentially affect the bottom lines for particular industries,\u201d the article stated. \u201cWe need to maintain the capacity to conduct cutting-edge research and to grapple with the application of the results in formulating evidence-based policies.\u201d
\nThe more than 2,300-word article is authored by Jonathan Samet, MD, MS<\/a>, previous chair of the EPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and Distinguished Professor and chair of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC; Thomas Burke, PhD, MPH, former EPA science advisor and former head of EPA\u2019s Office of Research and Development under the Obama administration; and Bernard Goldstein, MD, EPA assistant administrator for research and development during the Reagan administration.
\nThe article points at the key role of scientific evidence in driving public policy and its place in the laws and regulations that are critical in environmental policy. In the U.S., there is a long tradition of relying on scientific research. In fact, Abraham Lincoln created the National Academy of Sciences to provide advice to the government. Key environmental statutes, like the Clean Air Act, explicitly base action in research findings.
\nLessons from the past show the need for a strong EPA. Ronald Reagan initially sought to diminish the EPA but later warmed up to the agency and replaced his initial EPA leadership with people supportive of its environmental goals. Under Reagan\u2019s watch, the EPA removed lead from gasoline and provided the first EPA-funded studies related to climate change, the article said.
\nSamet, who also is the Flora L. Thornton Chair in Preventive Medicine and director of the Institute for Global Health, joins Burke and Goldstein in setting up a five-point call to action for the administration:
\n1. Evidence-based decision making on the environment should not be abandoned.
\n2. The Trump administration should continue to engage and seek advice from the broad community of scientists, reflecting the role of science and reason in democracy.
\n3. Research funding and environmental scientific capacity should be enhanced, not diminished, to reduce key uncertainties.
\n4. We need to continue to carefully track environmental surveillance and to be prepared to deal with emerging problems and disasters like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
\n5. There should be no pause in our efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions so that we can lessen the unprecedented challenges of global climate change.
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