EPA Advisers Question Agency’s Harmful Algal Bloom Research Focus

EPA science advisers are raising questions about the agency’s ongoing research related to the toxicity of harmful algal blooms (HABs), which are caused by excess nutrients, and efforts to forecast their occurrences, noting the complexity of the issue and asking whether the right places are being studied to capture environmental justice concerns. During a Dec. 1-2 meeting of EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) focused on water research, Lucinda Johnson, associate institute director at the Natural Resources Research Institute in...