Health Groups Push Epidemiologists For Overhaul Of EPA Advisory Panels

Public health groups are nominating epidemiologists, toxicologists and other experts to form the membership of EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) and Science Advisory Board (SAB) after Administrator Michael Regan dismissed both committees and sought submissions for a new slate of board members. And they, along with at least one former member of the Trump administration’s CASAC, are urging the agency to revive specialist subpanels of the air committee providing in-depth advice on reviews of national ambient air quality...