Clarissa Hawes
An energy advocacy organization and a large trucking association filed a lawsuit challenging the validity of an Environmental Protection Agency panel that is writing regulations to control particulate matter pollution.The lawsuit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C., claims that most of the members of the independent scientific review committee are not independent. The suit said that 22 of the 26 members received a combined $192 million in EPA grant money and are dependent on the agency for research funds.......“The EPA is obligated to appoint an independent committee to provide advice and recommendations to the administrator of the EPA every five years,” according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit claims that of the 84 EPA grants that “have produced thousands of published studies” on particulate matter, the institute isn’t aware of any that have challenged the agency’s stance on the harmful health effects associated with exposure to PM2.5......To Read More....
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