EPW Democrats query Wheeler on order to slash advisory panels

Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) are asking EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to explain how the agency plans to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring the elimination of at least one-third of federal advisory committees and limiting the creation of new panels. “With the Order’s mandate to eliminate some of EPA’s advisory committees entirely, we are concerned that such actions would jeopardize human health and the environment by further limiting the role of science in...