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An Environmental Protection Agency advisory panel has criticized some of the Trump administration’s deregulatory efforts in a draft report released this week, according to E&E News (via Science). The 44 members of the Science Advisory Board, most of whom were appointed by the current administration, disparaged government efforts to change regulations regarding protected waterways, vehicle emissions, coal- and oil-fired power plants, and transparency in scientific studies.
The board criticized the proposed Waters of the US rule, which would limit the waterways protected by the Clean Water Act, saying that parts of it “are in conflict with established science” and decrease “protection of our nation’s waters,” reports E&E News. The White House is expected to finish reviewing the rule later this winter. The board also took aim at the proposed Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science rule, which states that the EPA could only use publicly available studies ...
