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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 09 2017, @05:44PM (1 child)
Same shit different department:
http://freebeacon.com/politics/congress-obama-admin-fired-top-scientist-advance-climate-change-plans/ [freebeacon.com]
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/12/21/congress-obama-admin-fired-top-scientist-to-advance-climate-change-plans.html [foxnews.com]
What did you expect? When one does it it's good, when the other does it it's racist. Fuck your bubbled world view.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Tuesday May 09 2017, @09:44PM
One being a complete asshat does not preclude the other from being a cockholster. Just because I don't like Trump you assume I supported Obama ? Fsck you and the horse you call your mother. I never even mentioned Obama, you just have your head jammed so far up your own ass you assume facts not in evidence. When either does it they are both dirtbag politicians bought and paid for by the large corporations that run this country. Fsck-you very much...
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge