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Washington...Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday became the first federal department head to issue long-awaited rules to protect scientific integrity, drawing praise from environmental and scientific advocacy groups who had grown frustrated waiting for similar action that was promised by the White House.
The Interior policy comes as the White House is more than a year late in complying with an executive order by President Barack Obama that required the Office of Science and Technology Policy to issue recommendations to guarantee scientific integrity across departments and agencies within the executive branch. Those recommendations were due in July of 2009.
Jeffrey Ruch, who heads the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, applauded Interior for issuing its new rules despite the delay at the White House.
"Interior has been the poster child for manipulation of science," Ruch said. "[The new policy] will have government-wide influence because if Interior can do it, then anybody can do it."
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