ABOVE: EPA Administrator Michael Regan
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Update (June 18): The Associated Press reports that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan has reinstated the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and the Science Advisory Board. Two members who served on the clean air committee when it was disbanded in March have been reinstated, two others have returned after previous service, and three members are newly appointed. No members of the Science Advisory Board have been chosen yet.
Dozens of members from the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board and Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee who served under former President Donald Trump have been dismissed. On March 31, the agency released a press statement announcing the departures, with EPA Administrator Michael Regan citing “scientific integrity” as the reason for cleaning house.
The EPA was fraught with controversy throughout the four years of the Trump administration, as lobbyists of industry—some of whom ...
