The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) internal watchdog announced Friday that it will review the agency’s Scientific Integrity Policy, which is meant to “ensure scientific integrity … and promote scientific and ethical standards.”
The EPA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a notice stating that it will begin “preliminary research” into the policy and investigate whether it is being implemented properly to “assure scientific integrity throughout the EPA.”
It will also seek to determine the level of awareness among employees of the policy, why potential violations may not be reported, as well as the “extent and type of employee concerns, if any, with scientific integrity at the EPA.”
The news comes after a survey was released earlier this…
