EPA and Interior Department Overhaul Scientific Advisory Boards

In an effort to split from the Obama administration, EPA replaces scientists from a central advisory board while the Interior department freezes 200 plus advisory groups.

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Update (June 22): In an ongoing agency overhaul, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott Pruitt plans to replace every member of the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) “whose three-year appointments expire in August,” according to E&E News, which acquired an EPA email Monday (June 19). In the email, EPA Office of Research and Development acting head Robert Kavlock says that the board’s upcoming summer and fall subcommittee meetings will be cancelled as a consequence of the house-cleaning, E&E reports.

“It effectively wipes out the BOSC and leaves it free for a complete reappointment,” Deborah Swackhamer, BOSC executive committee chairwoman and ...

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