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EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Bars Government-Funded Science Advisers From Panels
The Daily Signal ^ | 10/31/2017 | Kevin Mooney

Posted on 10/31/2017 5:42:34 PM PDT by ForYourChildren

The nation’s top environmental protection official signed a directive Tuesday aimed at preventing conflicts of interest while bolstering the independence and integrity of scientists who advise the government.

Under the new policy announced by Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, researchers and scientists who currently receive grants from the agency are not eligible to fill open slots on three science advisory groups.

“Whatever science comes out of EPA shouldn’t be political science,” Pruitt, appointed by President Donald Trump, told reporters during a press conference at EPA headquarters in Washington. “From this day forward, EPA advisory committee members will be financially independent from the agency.”

Otherwise qualified applicants, including those from parts of the country seen as excluded from public service under the Obama administration, will have a leg up as the EPA changes under the Trump administration.

The remarks by Pruitt, former attorney general of Oklahoma, focused on three major panels among the EPA’s 22 advisory committees.

In the past three years, members of the Science Advisory Board, the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, and the Board of Scientific Counselors received about $77 million in direct EPA grants while serving, according to agency calculations.

“Strengthening independence from EPA; increasing state, tribal, and local government participation; and adding geographic diversity and fresh perspectives will improve the integrity of EPA’s scientific advisory committees,” Pruitt told reporters, government officials, and policy analysts in attendance.

His full directive, available here, identifies those as major policy goals.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: advisors; epa; pruitt; science; trumpwinsagain
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1 posted on 10/31/2017 5:42:34 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
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To: ForYourChildren

This guy is REALLY GOOD!


2 posted on 10/31/2017 5:42:48 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: ForYourChildren

Here is your copy of his directive:

https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2017-10/documents/final_draft_fac_directive-10.31.2017.pdf


3 posted on 10/31/2017 5:43:18 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: ForYourChildren

Barring those who seek to control the means of production. Production always uses energy thus the target of the new communist elitists.


4 posted on 10/31/2017 5:44:40 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: ForYourChildren

He’s the best of a great cabinet.


5 posted on 10/31/2017 5:45:09 PM PDT by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: ForYourChildren

I agree! He’s doing as much to clean up the mess and drain the swamp as AG Sessions and his team is doing (competently, quietly, and without informing FReepers of his every move)


6 posted on 10/31/2017 5:46:17 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: cyclotic
Let me repeat that, because I have definitely come to that conclusion.

"He’s the best of a great cabinet."

Oh, if only St. Pauli Girl Ryan, and Tyrdle, come man up, and step up.

7 posted on 10/31/2017 5:47:29 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: ForYourChildren

“Whatever science comes out of EPA shouldn’t be political science,”

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt says.

8 posted on 10/31/2017 5:48:29 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: ForYourChildren

Outstanding!!!

Winning, MAGA.


9 posted on 10/31/2017 5:49:01 PM PDT by XEHRpa
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To: bigbob

“I agree! He’s doing as much to clean up the mess and drain the swamp as AG Sessions and his team is doing (competently, quietly, and without informing FReepers of his every move)”

I would also add that he is doing it quickly.

He started draining his end of the swamp very quickly, with big drain pipes; and he continues to do so.

WINNING!!

#MAGA

GO TRUMP GO!


10 posted on 10/31/2017 5:54:48 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: ForYourChildren

Outstanding!


11 posted on 10/31/2017 5:55:08 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: ForYourChildren

This is what WINNING looks like!


12 posted on 10/31/2017 5:56:06 PM PDT by JPJones (Who is FOR tariffs? George Washington, Ronald Reagan and Me.)
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“Strengthening independence from EPA; increasing state, tribal, and local government participation; and adding geographic diversity and fresh perspectives will improve the integrity of EPA’s scientific advisory committees,” Pruitt told reporters, government officials, and policy analysts in attendance.

Brilliant! Liberal speak with conservative wisdom.

13 posted on 10/31/2017 6:04:27 PM PDT by lizma2
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“Brilliant! Liberal speak with conservative wisdom.”


14 posted on 10/31/2017 6:05:40 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: bigbob
He’s doing as much to clean up the mess and drain the swamp as AG Sessions and his team is doing (competently, quietly, and without informing FReepers of his every move)

No. If Pruitt was Jeff Session, he would have recused himself from all things about Global Warming.

Pruitt is a rock star.

15 posted on 10/31/2017 6:06:38 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: ForYourChildren

He is the best cabinet appointment Trump ever made by a considerable distance.


16 posted on 10/31/2017 6:20:58 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: ForYourChildren

March for Science.....BOOM !


17 posted on 10/31/2017 6:26:52 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: ForYourChildren

Now start planning the end all of the globullcrap funding in the form of grants, etc, as they expire...


18 posted on 10/31/2017 6:53:31 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: ForYourChildren

Put the ‘climate researchers’ under oath and have them explain their findings.

Then we’ll talk.


19 posted on 10/31/2017 6:59:00 PM PDT by IncPen (Put the 'climate researchers' under oath and have them explain their findings. Then we'll talk.)
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To: bigbob

Actually lets hope he is actually doing SOMETHING, unlike the absent without leave Sleepin jeff sessions.


20 posted on 10/31/2017 7:55:07 PM PDT by Okeydoker
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