Procedural Review of EPAs Greenhouse Gases Endangerment Finding Data Quality Processes, Report No. 11-P-0702, September 26, 2011
requirements and guidance related to ensuring the quality of the supporting technical information. Whether EPAs review of its endangerment finding TSD met Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requirements for peer review depends on whether the TSD is considered a highly influential scientific assessment. In our opinion, the TSD was a highly influential scientific assessment because EPA weighed the strength of the available science by its choices of information, data, studies, and conclusions included in and excluded from the TSD. EPA officials told us they did not consider the TSD a highly influential scientific assessment. EPA noted that the TSD consisted only of science that was previously peer reviewed, and that these reviews were deemed adequate under the Agencys policy. EPA had the TSD reviewed by a panel of 12 federal climate change scientists. This review did not meet all OMB requirements for peer review of a highly influential scientific assessment primarily because the review results and EPAs response were not publicly reported, and because 1 of the 12 reviewers was an EPA employee.”
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