A federal judge has vacated and remanded the key portion of the Trump EPA's 2017 policy barring scientists receiving agency research grants from serving on its advisory panels, likely forcing the agency to drop the use of the controversial limitation as it works to fill upcoming vacancies on at least two key advisory panels. In an April 15 decision, Judge Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York agreed with environmentalists that the policy should be vacated and remanded to the agency, while rejecting agency arguments to remand the policy without vacatur while it sought a new justification.
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