Word: browner
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Tell it to Carol Browner. When the Environmental Protection Agency chief proposed a set of strict new clean-air rules back in November, she was ambushed from just about every direction. Conservative legislators, industry lobbyists and the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal attacked Browner with unusual vehemence, declaring, that, among other things, the rules were based on bad science and would subvert the American way of life by banning barbecues and fireworks...
That was bad enough. But Browner was also blasted by some of her colleagues within the Administration, who accused her of relying on poor data, showing indifference to the economy and--worst of all in a group that prides itself on consensus building--being unwilling to modify her position. Some White House aides even thought she should be fired for insubordination...
...have asked Harvard to make the studies public," Carol Browner, EPA administrator, told the Globe. "I will always err on the side of public disclosure...
...Browner told the Globe that 19 of the 21 scientists questioned by the EPA about air pollution advocated limiting fine particles...
...Browner also told the Globe the EPA based its decision to recommend new pollution controls on dozens of other studies besides the Dockery-Schwartz study. However, according to the Globe, only the Dockery-Schwartz research and one other study examined the effects of inhaling fine particles over a period of years