EPA Makes No Call On Restoring PM Standards Panel, Jeopardizing Review

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler has not yet decided how to respond to agency science advisers’ call to reconstitute an expert panel to assist with oversight of EPA’s review of federal particulate matter (PM) standards, throwing into doubt both the speed and quality of the agency’s review, House Democrats say. At a combined hearing of two House science subcommittees July 16, Democrats said that EPA still has not decided how to respond to the request by the Clean Air Scientific Advisory...