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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has chosen to replace half of the members on one of its key scientific review boards, the first step in a broader effort by Republicans to change the way the agency evaluates the scientific basis for its regulations.
The move could significantly change the makeup of the 18-member Board of Scientific Counselors, which advises EPA's key scientific arm on whether the research it does has sufficient rigor and integrity. All of the members being dismissed were at the end of serving at least one three-year term, although these terms are often renewed instead of terminated.
EPA spokesman J.P. Freire said in an email that "no one has been fired or terminated," and that Pruitt had simply decided to bring in fresh advisers. The agency informed the outside academics on Friday that their terms would not be renewed.
[...] These moves came as a surprise to the agencies' outside advisers, with several of them taking to Twitter to announce their suspensions.
Members of EPA's Board of Scientific Counselors had been informed twice — in January, before Barack Obama left office, and then more recently by EPA career staff members — that they would be kept on for another term, adding to their confusion.
We cannot allow Beijing's air quality to beat ours.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday May 09 2017, @01:33PM
Vernon: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
Betty: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
[Later]
Vernon: The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the white zone.
Betty: No, the white zone is for loading and unloading. There is no stopping in the red zone.
Vernon: The red zone has always been for loading and unloading. There's never stopping in a white zone.
Betty: Don't tell me which zone is for stopping and which zone is for loading!
Vernon: Listen, Betty, don't start up with your "white zone" shit again.
[Later]
Vernon: There's just no stopping in a white zone.
Betty: Oh really, Vernon? Why pretend? We both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.
Vernon: It's really the only sensible thing to do, if it's done safely. Therapeutically there's no danger involved
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---