Critics urge NAS to drop Graham from radiation panel

July 26, 2021
Environmentalists are urging the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) to withdraw the provisional appointment of Bush-era regulatory review chief John Graham to a panel that is slated to advise the Energy Department (DOE) on a low-dose radiation research strategy, months after EPA removed him and other Trump appointees from its advisory board. In a July 22 letter , more than a dozen groups said they “object strongly” to Graham’s provisional appointment to NAS’ Committee on Developing a Long-Term Strategy for...


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