At the #EPA, the new #ScientificIntegrity provision is part of a 4-yr contract w/the agency. The provision ensures that #workers’ complaints will be assessed by an #independent investigator, rather than a #political appointee. While any new president could quickly transform policies around scientific integrity through new executive orders, the #union#contract provision is one advocates had urged as a way to make the #protections harder to undo w/o a #legal fight.