The goal is to "recenter policy-making around gold standard science, scientific efforts that have followed appropriate scientific methods that don't include those sorts of conflicts of interest, and to ensure that when departments and agencies are relying on scientific studies, to promulgate rules, to promulgate regulations, that the science that they're relying on is highly, highly reliable and available to the public," said White House staff secretary Will Scharf.
Trump aims to boost U.S. nuclear energy with executive orders
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“These are regulations that are currently in effect that we believe blatantly violate the law, blatantly violate Supreme Court precedent or otherwise [are] just blatantly illegal,” said White House staff secretary Will Scharf as Mr. Trump signed the order.
Federal red ink now costs businesses more than $2.1 trillion per year, report says
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