After SAB Changes, Academics Plan Panel To Review EPA Science Products

摘要

A group of academic engineers and scientists is creating a new panel to peer review draft EPA science products, and will be chaired by a former member of the agency's Science Advisory Board (SAB), in reaction to their concerns with changes that Administrator Scott Pruitt has made to SAB in recent months. The Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP), a 55-year-old organization whose more than 800 members include professors, graduate students and others, is creating a new committee that will be tasked with tracking EPA's output of draft scientific reports and other products, and peer reviewing those deemed appropriate for the committee's review, two members tell Inside EPA.