Reset or Purge? Trump EPA Dismisses Agency Science Advisers

Inside Climate News · By Marianne Lavelle · last updated January 29, 2025 – 3:10 PM

Critics fear the unusual clean sweep of panels is meant to ease the planned rollback of climate and environmental policy.

By Marianne Lavelle

All members of the Environmental Protection Agency’s boards of outside advisers on science and clean air were dismissed in a letter emailed late Tuesday, an unusual step the Trump administration said was aimed at depoliticizing the panels.

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