EPA puts climate change skeptic, conservative think tank scholar John Christy on science board

[Eugene]

Source: The Hill

EPA puts climate change skeptic, conservative think tank scholar on science board

BY TIMOTHY CAMA - 01/31/19 05:12 PM EST

Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Andrew Wheeler has put eight new members on the agency’s main board of external science advisers.

The new members include an outspoken skeptic of climate change science, a scholar at a conservative group funded in part by billionaire businessman Charles Koch and researchers who have received industry funding.

The Science Advisory Board is the main body that advises the EPA on scientific matters, like scrutinizing regulations and directing the agency’s actions.

The new members announced Thursday continue former EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s controversial policy of banning members who received EPA grants, a move that critics assailed as an attempt to make the committee more industry-friendly.

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Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/427941-epa-puts-climate-skeptic-conservative-think-tank-scholar-on-science

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

1. "Conservative think tank" is an oxymoron.

Whereas science under Dubya's administration was either ignored or rewritten to fit his policies, there is an active anti-science effort going on under IQ45's regime. It's going to take years to clean up the mess he's creating--and it's only been two years.

[Canoe52]

2. We do need to hear from "all sides".