Enviros win science advisers lawsuit

摘要

Green groups have clocked a win against a controversial EPA policy that limited who could be members ofthe agency's science advisory boards.Yesterday's ruling by Judge Denise Cote for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New Yorkcame after multiple courts tossed similar claims.The Natural Resources Defense Council sued the agency last year over a 2017 directive from then-EPAAdministrator Scott Pruitt that said members of the agency's advisory boards could not be recipients ofEPA grants. The policy resulted in the removal of scientists from the agency's advisory committees.Cote agreed with NRDC, saying that the Administrative Procedure Act requires EPA to provide a "reasonedexplanation" for the change.