Trump EPA ends two more advisory panels as agency's war on science continues
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In two apparently related decisions, the Trump «Environmental Protection Agency» is terminating outside panels of experts formed to advise the EPA on soot and on ground-level ozone pollution. The ozone panel hadn't even been formed yet; the EPA siTrump EPA ends two more advisory panels as agency's war on science continues
In two apparently related decisions, the Trump «Environmental Protection Agency» is terminating outside panels of experts formed to advise the EPA on soot and on ground-level ozone pollution. The ozone panel hadn't even been formed yet; the EPA simply informed all the candidates that they would no longer be needed. According to the Washington Post, this is part of an intentional shift by the agency to «change the way the agency conducts and assesses science.» Specifically, it's an effort to have less of it. Now, under acting administrator Andrew Wheeler, the EPA has instead decided to let a seven-member group called the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) alone perform those assessments and make recommendations to the agency’s political leaders. Rather than convening scientific experts who specialize in the targeted questions being asked about the health effects of soot, ozone, and other pollutants, the more generic Clean Air committee, five members of which were recently installed by Team Trump, will simply weigh in on those issues themselves and be done with it. GOTV! Even if you don't live in a battleground district, you can sign up to write letters to unlikely voters who do. And click here to donate to Democratic campaigns to take back the House and Senate. Read more