EPA Advisers Fight Diversion Of Research Funds To Security Projects

EPA's science advisers are harshly criticizing the agency's proposed fiscal year 2007 research budget, saying funding increases for the agency's homeland security efforts are diverting funds from crucial research on air pollution and toxic chemicals. In a recent letter to EPA , the Science Advisory Board (SAB) used unusually strong language to warn that EPA's research and development resources were "grossly inadequate" and called the budget cuts a "serious impediment" to EPA's mission. The SAB raised concerns that EPA's homeland...