Interior Department issues policy to protect scientific integrity

The rules, which come as such recommendations for the entire executive branch have yet to be made, require that Interior agencies document the science behind their decision-making.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 White-House-promised action on the issue.

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