Shitstain Leaving Top Science Posts Vacant, Packing Remaining Science Boards W. Industry Hacks
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A report released Thursday by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) found that, in the first year of the Trump administration, science advisory panels charged with advising agencies across the government have been whittled down or, like Beier's, dissolved entirely. Those still in existence, the report found, met less often than they have since the government began tracking their meetings 20 years ago.
UCS looked at the schedules and records of 73 science advisory panels and found that membership declined 14 percent compared to 2016, while the number of meetings dropped 20 percent. In 2017, nearly two-thirds of the panels that UCS studied met less often than their charters require.
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has hit his agency's scientific panels especially hard, failing to renew terms according to custom, the report says. Pruitt also issued a directive in October that ordered any member of the agency's Science Advisory Board who receives EPA funding to either give up the funding or step down. Pruitt, meanwhile, has appointed people from industries that the agency regulates.
"The Trump administration has clearly decided they have no need for the best science advice. In fact, they think they need no scientific advice. For the most part, they're letting these committees atrophy," said David Michaels, a professor in the department of environmental and occupational health at George Washington University. "The exception to that is when they're appointing conflicted scientists at EPA." Michaels, who was an assistant secretary at the departments of both Labor and Energy during the Clinton and Obama administrations, has written extensively on science in politics.
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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18012018/science-climate-change-advisory-board-epa-interior-trump-administration
