The president’s order is bad news for anyone that breathes air in this country. Read more >
Brace Yourself for Unhealthy Air: The Trump Administration Weakens Clean Air Protections
Gretchen Goldman, Research Director, Center for Science and Democracy
April 13, 2018 9:41 AM EDT
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New Report Reveals Trump Administration Is Abandoning Science Advice
Genna Reed, Lead science and policy analyst
January 18, 2018 6:56 AM EDT
Experts serving as members of federal advisory committees are being frozen out of the very avenues that were designed to encourage external input on scientific issues to the federal government. Read more >
The EPA Science Advisory Board Is Being Compromised. Here’s Why That Matters.
Michael Halpern, Deputy director, Center for Science & Democracy
October 30, 2017 11:15 AM EDT
Nothing good happens when independent experts are replaced by people who have financial incentives to skew the scientific analysis in the direction of the companies they represent. Read more >
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Accelerates Politicization of Agency’s Science Advisory Board
Michael Halpern, Deputy director, Center for Science & Democracy
October 17, 2017 5:45 PM EDT
Earlier today, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt strongly suggested that the agency will not consider any candidate for EPA’s science advisory committees who has received a grant from the agency. Such a gobsmackingly boneheaded move would further hamstring the ability of the EPA to accomplish its public health mission. The administrator is directly challenging the intent of Congress, which established the Science Advisory Board to provide independent scientific advice so that EPA can effectively protect our health and environment. Read more >
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Will Scott Pruitt Tap Polluter-Friendly Scientists for Key Advisory Panel?
Elliott Negin, senior writer
September 26, 2017 3:48 PM EDT
A third of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board, an influential panel that reviews the science the agency uses in formulating safeguards, could be succeeded by climate science-denying, polluter-friendly replacements when their terms expire at the end of this month.
