Both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department are overhauling a slew of outside advisory boards that inform how their agencies assess the science underpinning federal policies, the first step in a broader effort by Republicans to change the way the federal government evaluates the scientific basis for its regulations.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
EPA dismisses half of key board’s scientific advisers; Interior suspends more than 200 advisory panels
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May 8, 2017 at 2:24 p.m. EDT