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GO TO THE LINK TO CALL YOUR LOCAL REP!!!!!! The House will vote on HR 1430, the HONEST ACT, on Weds. March 29th. The latest in the Republican Congress's attacks on the EPA is the misleadingly titled HONEST Act (H.R. 1430), introduced by Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX). The HONEST Act is intentionally oblique legislation which requires that, when developing rules, the EPA only utilize scientific studies whose data, code, and other materials are all publicly available online. It also requires that all results be independently reproducible. These requirements deviate from the established norms of the scientific community and are designed to cripple scientific research at the EPA. It allows industry lobbyists and EPA-opposed politicians to delay or block credible peer-reviewed studies. For example, the requirement that all scientific results be reproducible is often infeasible (such as when studying one-off events like the Deepwater Horizon disaster or Hurricane Katrina), or prohibitively expensive (such as decades-long public health studies involving thousands of participants). Similarly, the requirement that all data be publicly available can be prohibitive; redacting personally identifiable information from public health studies can require thousands of hours of labor, and other findings may depend on tightly guarded industry or trade secrets. The HONEST Act is yet another example of this Congress putting well funded private interests ahead of the health of citizens and our country.