Seeking ‘Reset,’ Acting EPA Chief Dismisses All SAB, CASAC Panelists

January 29, 2025
Update Appended Seeking a “reset,” EPA Acting Administrator James Payne has dismissed all members of the agency’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) and Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC), echoing similar sweeping actions the agency took at the start of both the first Trump and Biden administrations. In a Jan. 28 email obtained by Inside EPA , Payne told Tom Brennan, director of the EPA SAB Staff Office, of the dismissals in order to reset the two boards. “A decision...


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