Former Advisers Charge EPA’s PM Plan Relies On ‘Contrived’ CASAC Panel

February 23, 2023
Two former EPA science advisers are renewing their legal attack on the agency’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC), making new allegations in appellate court that the Biden administration unlawfully dismissed the Trump-era panel and replaced it with compliant scientists who support agency efforts to tighten particulate matter (PM) limits. “EPA proposed a new particulate-matter standard that will impose billions of dollars in costs on regulated industries (and ultimately consumers) on the basis of a unanimous Committee recommendation that the...


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