Pruitt Prepares To Axe Current Science Advisers, Driving 'Purge' Charge

Clarification Appended EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is applying his new policy barring science advisors from receiving agency grants to current advisors, a move that will force some to either give up their grants or step down from the panels on which they serve, opening the door to Pruitt making additional appointments and intensifying criticisms that the he is seeking to “purge” independent advisors. Invoking a Biblical passage in the Book of Joshua, where Joshua leads the Israelites...