Securing Scientific Integrity
EPN Comments on NASEM Charge Questions and Ad Hoc Committee for “State-of-the-Science and the Future of Cumulative Impact Assessment”
EPN Submits Nominees for FY2025 Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee Membership
EPN Comments on EPA’s Draft Scientific Integrity Policy
EPN Comments on New Approach Methodologies in the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program
Letter to Administrator Regan Regarding Best Available Science
EPN Welcomes Senate Confirmation of ORD Assistant Administrator After 10-Year Vacancy
Comments on the Development of a Federal Scientific Integrity Policy Framework
Testimony on CASAC’s Draft Reports on EPA’s Draft Supplement to the 2019 ISA and Draft PA for Particulate Matter
EPN IN THE NEWS RELATED TO Science
EPA Cancels Key Science Advisory Board Meeting
Jeremy Symons, Senior Adviser to EPN, was quoted in Inside Climate News. The cancellation of a meeting of top advisors to the agency’s scientific research arm, with no explanation or plans to reschedule, signals bad news for public health and the environment, say former advisors.
“The Implications Will Be Devastating:” How the EPA’s Proposed Cuts Could Impact RTP
Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta, former Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator, EPA Office of Research and Development, was quoted in WUNC about the cumulative dangers of dismantling ORD and EPA’s deregulatory agenda, which will reverse decades of environmental and public health progress and result in pollution levels not seen since before 1970.
Trump’s EPA Has Deleted All Web References to Climate Change
Michelle Roos was quoted in Jacobin about the Trump administration scrubbing federal websites of invaluable data and erasing all webpages with the words “climate change” and obstructing science.
Former EPA Staff Tout ‘Probabilistic’ Risk Methods, Echoing TSCA Comments
Tracey Woodruff, former EPA senior scientist and policy advisor in EPA Office of Policy, and Director of the program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, UCSF, participated in a panel hosted by the National Toxicology Program and was quoted in Inside EPA, arguing that EPA should adopt probabilistic methods when developing risk assessments for non-cancer risks, opposed to the reference dose methods used currently.