Governors' Wind Energy Coalition EPA finalizes rule to limit science behind public health safeguards Source: By Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis, Washington Post • Posted: Wednesday, January 6, 2021 The Trump administration’s ‘transparency’ rule requires researchers to disclose their raw data. Opponents argue that the goal is to exclude important research on human health. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler leaves the White House Rose Garden after a speech by President Trump in 2019. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a rule to limit what research it can use to craft public health protections, a move opponents argue is aimed at crippling the agency’s ability to more aggressively regulate the nation’s air and water.