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(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, February, 6, 2018) Scientists, doctors, and environmental groups are pushing back against the \"\"Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s (EPA) efforts to purge academic scientists who had previously received EPA grants from sitting on the agency\u2019s advisory committees.\u00a0Last October, EPA issued a new policy that changes the makeup of its advisory boards by limiting the participation of scientists from academia and nonpartisan nonprofit organizations.\u00a0Critics say the change attempts to fill these advisory committees with more industry-friendly officials whose belief systems are anti-environmental protection.\u00a0On January 23, 2018, a group of scientists\u00a0filed suit<\/a>\u00a0against EPA, citing the directive as arbitrary, without any factual or legal grounding and in violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, which requires advisory committees to be fairly balanced and protected from inappropriate influence by the appointing authority.<\/p>\n

In 1978, Congress directed the EPA to establish the Science Advisory Board, which today is a 47-member panel, to provide scientific advice to the Administrator. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced in October<\/a> that he would exclude anyone from serving on any of the 23 EPA scientific advisory boards if they had received EPA grants to fund any of their research. Administrator Pruitt claims the policy change will prevent conflicts of interest. But, his decree means that the agency\u2019s decision makers will not receive input from top scientific experts, many of whom rely on public grants to conduct independent studies.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit explains that open exchange of accurate scientific information is a touchstone of a functioning\u00a0democracy, and contends that the Administrator failed to explain why scientists and experts who receive similar funding from other sources \u2014 scientists affiliated with private industry or local governments \u2014 fall outside the scope of the purge. In singling out academic members of the scientific community who are receiving EPA grants, EPA\u2019s directive \u201clays bare its real function: to stack the deck against scientific integrity.\u201d The lawsuit asks the court to overturn Pruitt\u2019s directive and prevent EPA staff from implementing the directive.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an abuse of power and an affront to the scientific integrity of the EPA and the federal government,\u201d said Joshua Goldman, senior legal analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists.\u00a0\u201cThis directive singles out scientists from the nonprofit and academic sector\u2014recognized experts in their field who want to serve the public\u2014and asks them to choose between public service and their scientific work. It\u2019s another example of this administration\u2019s hostility to independent scientific input and basing policy on impartial and balanced scientific evidence. The directive inherently prevents the agency from receiving independent scientific advice, and erects unnecessary barriers to scientists who want to use their expertise to serve the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Court for the District of Massachusetts by\u00a0Protect Democracy<\/a>, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, and the law firm Jenner & Block, representing the Union of Concerned Scientists and Dr. Elizabeth A. (Lianne) Sheppard, professor at the University of Washington, School of Public Health.<\/p>\n

This lawsuit comes one month after Earthjustice\u00a0filed a similar complaint<\/a>\u00a0on behalf of Physicians for Social Responsibility, National Hispanic Medical Association, and the International Society for Children\u2019s Health and Environment, challenging EPA\u2019s attempt to remove scientists from the agency\u2019s advisory committees. Earthjustice\u2019s suit argues that the policy illegally overrides federal ethics rules and that it is arbitrarily biased in favor of corporate interests. Advisors picked by Administrator Pruitt to join the advisory boards, like Robert Phalen, once claimed that \u201cmodern air is a little too clean for optimum health.\u201d Such advisors will inevitably tilt EPA decisions and programs in favor of polluters. Another Science Advisory Board appointees include a new chair, Michael Honeycutt, who has claimed that more smog would be a \u201chealth benefit.\u201d As the lead toxicologist on Texas\u2019 state environmental agency, he has opposed stricter limits on mercury and arsenic releases and undermined protections for benzene, a common and powerful carcinogen<\/p>\n

The EPA\u2019s Science Advisory Board now\u00a0includes\u00a014 new members who\u00a0consult or work\u00a0for the fossil fuel or chemical industries, which gave sizeable campaign contributions to Administrator Pruitt when he was an Oklahoma state senator and attorney general, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists.\u00a0 Science advisory boards also play a crucial watchdog role. Scientists from across the country from diverse backgrounds are relied on the review and provide council to EPA programs and decision-making, ensuring the science is robust, transparent and sufficiently assessed to provide adequate protections for the environment. According to Earthjustice, since 2012, industry allies in Congress have\u00a0repeatedly proposed legislation<\/a>\u00a0that would prohibit scientists from serving on the boards if they receive EPA grants. Industry understands that academic experts rely upon these grants to a much greater extent than industry consultants do. Much of the grant money goes to support graduate students who conduct academic research while earning paltry stipends\u2014$24,000 per year<\/a>\u00a0is typical. If academics must choose between receiving EPA grants and continuing to serve on science advisory boards, the choice they really face is whether to continue funding students. Unsurprisingly, many teachers are committed to their students and will choose to leave the boards rather than decline funding. Pruitt then can replace them with industry allies.<\/p>\n

These changes to EPA\u2019s science advisory boards in just one of a host of measures aimed at dismantling the agency and opening the gates for an industry take over. While environmentalists and public health experts have criticized EPA for lax or inadequate regulation, the administrator has been getting rid of EPA scientists and staff<\/a>\u00a0and attacking public health and the environment through proposed budget cuts by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Source: Earthjustice<\/a>, Think Progress<\/a><\/p>\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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