Can the 112th Congress officially claim the mantle of "most anti-science" ever? So says Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), a 36-year veteran of congressional wrangling over environmental matters. Even the contentious fights over issues like the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments pale in comparison to the environmental battles of the current Congress, the 71-year-old lawmaker noted earlier this week: "I've never been in a Congress where there was such an overwhelming disconnect between science and public policy."
It's not just that the House GOP is pushing—and will likely pass—a bill that would bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating planet-warming emissions and nullify the agency's scientific finding that those gases endanger human health. Congressional Republicans have mounted an all-out assault on the EPA, pushing a lengthy list of measures to handcuff the agency from exercising its regulatory authority. For good measure, they are also trying to slash the agency's budget by a third.
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And Democrats sure are hammering the point home. While Waxman may have accused Republicans of presiding over the "most anti-science" Congress in history, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) tells Mother Jones that his colleague's characterization doesn't even go far enough: "This is the most anti-science body since the Catholic Church ostracized Galileo for determining that the earth revolves around the sun."No seeds, no independent research
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