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<font size="+1"><i>June 28, 2017</i></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Prime Minister announces new
Ambassador for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b></span></a></h2>
Prime Minister of Canada (press release) The Prime Minister,
Justin Trudeau, today announced that Jennifer MacIntyre has been
appointed Canada's new Ambassador for<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">Climate Change</b>, effective immediately. Ms.
MacIntyre will work with international stakeholders to advance
Canada's clean ...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2017/06/27/prime-minister-announces-new-ambassador-climate-change">http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2017/06/27/prime-minister-announces-new-ambassador-climate-change</a></div>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Local Actions Lead The Global
Efforts To Address <b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate
Change</b></span></a></h2>
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This month the inaugural Board meeting of the Global Covenant of
Mayors for Climate and Energy, a coalition of over 7,400 cities
spanning more than 120 countries, will be held in Brussels. As the
Board members, mayors who are working together to respond to climate
change with similar dreams will meet to share their thoughts and
ideas. The Global Covenant of Mayors will provide a platform for
cities to commit to, track and monitor progress on climate action.
And the best part, it's totally transparent with all the data made
publicly available....<br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">AgWeb: 6 Questions Drones Are
Answering About<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b></span></a></h2>
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After a climate innovation grant announcement last December, Pix4D
and Parrot received more than 250 proposals from researchers across
the globe. This month, the two companies announce they have selected
six projects, based on novelty, scientific merit and team
experience.<br>
Here is a brief look at the projects:<br>
<b>1. Drone-based detection of grassland phenology, productivity and
composition in relation to climate.</b><br>
"Our goal is to use a drone-mounted camera and multispectral sensor
to map and monitor temporal and spatial variation in grassland in
order to understand the role of climate variation in driving changes
in grassland composition," according to Christopher Field, professor
of biology and environmental earth science at Stanford University.<br>
<b>2. The role of climate in modulating wildlife extinctions in
African drylands.</b><br>
Robert Pringle, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary
biology at Princeton University, says his team will measure woody
plant biomass, phenology, water stress, canopy architecture and
other data that he says is impossible to measure with existing
satellite technology. The drones will supplement the program's
regular long-term monitoring program with regularly occurring
low-altitude surveys.<br>
<b>3. Growth dynamics of the lichen fields of the Central Namib
Desert.</b><br>
"Our long-term goal would be to try and model productivity of the
lichen-fields based on the multi-spectral bands (specifically the
near-infrared and red edge bands), and in this way monitor the vigor
and growth of the lichen fields," according to Gillian
Maggs-Kolling, executive director of the Gobabeb Research and
Training Centre in Namibia. "These data could inform land management
practices in the uranium-rich Central Namib Desert."<br>
<b>4. Using drones to monitor grassland responses to shifting
climate and restoration.</b><br>
Using a multispectral camera will significantly reduce the team's
workload because they will no longer need to overlay images by hand
to calculate NDVI or other measurements, according to Holly Jones,
assistant professor of biological sciences at Northern Illinois
University.<br>
"This grant will scale our pilot project and look at how restoration
interacts with climate and allows us to help managers forecast what
that will mean for future prairie restorations," she says.<br>
<b>5. Monitoring insect pest impacts in Mediterranean forests.</b><br>
By flying a drone and collecting multispectral imagery, researcher
Lluis Brotons with Spain's InForest JRU hopes to dodge current
constraints of satellite and RGB imagery.<br>
"Multispectral data allows a much better comparison across images
taken in different locations and times," he says.<br>
<b>6. Climate-driven greening of the Siberian Arctic.</b><br>
"This grant offers huge advantages: discrete spectral bands, direct
measures of incoming solar radiation, integrated IMU data,
integrated GPS data, streamlined workflow," according to Jeffrey
Kerby with Germany's Institute for Arctic Studies.<br>
Kerby says integrated hardware and software allows for a more
efficient look into understanding how vegetation responds to climate
change in the Arctic.<br>
All grant recipients received a Parrot Disco-Pro AG drone with a
Parrot Sequoia multispectral sensor, along with a one-year Pix4D
software license and additional training to assist their research.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.agweb.com/article/6-questions-drones-are-answering-about-climate-change-naa-ben-potter/">https://www.agweb.com/article/6-questions-drones-are-answering-about-climate-change-naa-ben-potter/</a></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Letter: Relevant laws of physics
explain<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b></span></a></h2>
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<i> The Buffalo News Letters to the Editor</i> <br>
A recent letter questioned the science behind climate change. Some
people just don't believe it. Sadly, the laws of physics are
unchanging and they don't care what you believe.<br>
Here is a brief summary of the relevant laws of physics. Coal, gas
and oil are hydrocarbons. They are made up mainly of carbon and
hydrogen atoms held together by chemical bonds. When they burn, the
chemical bonds are broken, releasing energy.<br>
However, a fundamental law of classical physics states that matter
cannot be created or destroyed. It merely changes form. Since
burning is really rapid oxidation, the carbon atoms combine with
oxygen in the atmosphere and become carbon dioxide. This carbon
dioxide cannot be thrown away. In reality, there is no such place as
"away." Some of the carbon dioxide goes into plant life, to be
released later when the plant decays. Some goes into the oceans,
damaging vital coral structures. The rest goes into the atmosphere.<br>
Carbon dioxide has been known to be a greenhouse gas for centuries.
That means it allows the electromagnetic energy from the sun to pass
through, but reflects radiant energy from the earth. The energy is
therefore trapped in the atmosphere. Classical physics also tells us
that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can change forms.
Electromagnetic energy can become heat energy, heat energy can
become mechanical energy (wind) and so on.<br>
While the earth's climate has changed many times, it has never
changed even remotely as quickly as it is changing now. You and I
cannot feel the change because in human terms it is quite slow, a
few degrees Celsius per decade, but in geological terms it is
lightning quick. The results can be seen in melting ice caps,
retreating glaciers, rising sea levels, changes in plant and animal
distribution and rapid desertification.<br>
Perhaps it is not possible to stop global climate change, but it is
foolhardy to deny it.<br>
Bill Gross <font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://buffalonews.com/2017/06/26/letter-relevant-laws-of-physics-explain-climate-change/">http://buffalonews.com/2017/06/26/letter-relevant-laws-of-physics-explain-climate-change/</a></font><br>
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href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-27/climate-scientists-speak-of-their-worst-fears/8631368"
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text-decoration: none;" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
class="titletext" style="font-weight: bold;"><b
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>scientists reveal
their fears for the future</span></a></h2>
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(video
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-27/some-australian-climate-scientists-are-considering/8657152">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-27/some-australian-climate-scientists-are-considering/8657152</a>)<br>
Cradling her newborn baby girl, heatwave expert Sarah Perkins
Kirkpatrick admits to feeling torn between the joy of motherhood and
anxiety over her first-born child's future.<br>
"I always wanted a big family and I'm thrilled. But my happiness is
altered by what I know is coming with climate change," she said.<br>
"I don't like to scare people but the future's not looking very
good.<br>
"Having a baby makes it personal. Will this child suffer heatstroke
just walking to school?"<br>
Dr Perkins Kirkpatrick is one of several climate scientists who
Lateline spoke to, seeking a range of opinions from experts at some
of the top climate change research units within major universities
in Australia.<br>
The 33-year-old lives in Sydney and studies heatwaves as a senior
research fellow at the University of New South Wales' Climate Change
Research Centre.<br>
The youngest of seven siblings, she said she'd always wanted to have
at least four, possibly five children.<br>
That was until the record-breaking heatwaves of Sydney's last
summer.<br>
"One day I measured 45 degrees outside <i>(113 degrees F)</i> on
the porch in the shade and it was 39 <i>(102)</i> on the inside.
The air conditioner in the living room had broken down," she said.<br>
"I was sleeping with wet towels on my legs to keep cool. I was
thinking this is hot now and it's only going to get worse.<br>
"I said to my husband 'are we doing the right thing? Is it right to
be bringing kids into the world with me knowing how bad it's going
to be?'"<br>
All of Australia is vulnerable to climate change but Dr Perkins
Kirkpatrick said as the decades progress, some regions will be
better off than others in terms of heatwaves.<br>
"We've already seen changes in heatwaves, particularly their
frequency, and these heatwaves are only going to get worse,
particularly in the tropics, where the number of heatwave days will
be much greater than now," she said.<br>
She said research shows that if there isn't a reduction in CO2
emissions, there will be up to 50 extra really hot days a year in
northern Australia by the end of the century.<br>
"I wouldn't want to be living in Brisbane, north of Brisbane, over
the coming decades because the humidity will be atrocious and when
it's hot and humid it's actually a lot harder to stay cool because
your body can't get rid of that heat through evaporation," she said.<br>
"There's nowhere for the moisture to go."<br>
Professor David Griggs, who recently retired as director of the
Sustainable Development Institute at Monash University, said
Australia is in denial about climate change.<br>
"Australians will have to adapt or die," he said.<br>
He believes temperatures will rise well above 2C and may reach 5C
above average by the end of this century, a forecast in line with
the UN's IPCC modelling under a high emissions scenario.<br>
He spoke to Lateline about the emotional burden of knowing what
climate change would bring.<br>
"Depression is clearly something. You get days when you're down,
because what you know and what you can see coming is not good," he
said.<br>
He is planning to move his family to south-west England, where he
said climate projections look good for the next 100 years.<br>
"When a new fact comes in that makes me fearful I think at least
I've done what I can to protect my family," he said.<br>
PhD student Justin Oogers said he and his wife were also unsure of
whether to have children.<br>
Heatwaves kill far more people than other natural disasters. ABC
Emergency has a checklist of things you can do to be ready.<br>
"We're quite concerned, even scared. Our parents want us to have
children and there are great things about having children but
knowing what's happing with climate change we've been putting it
off," he said.<br>
He said they have considered moving further south to Tasmania.<br>
"We may be forced, my wife and I, to move further south. A lot of
other people are probably thinking the same thing," he said.<br>
"My grandpa, he's living on a boat south of Hobart."<br>
Dr Perkins Kirkpatrick said her family is making contingency plans
and may move from Sydney.<br>
"My husband and I have raised the possibility of moving to Canberra.
It's a city, it has good employment opportunities, good
infrastructure. Their night time temperatures are a lot cooler
because they're further inland," she said.<br>
"You can cope with extreme heat much better if you have cooler night
time temperatures to sleep."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-27/climate-scientists-speak-of-their-worst-fears/8631368">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-27/climate-scientists-speak-of-their-worst-fears/8631368</a></font><br>
<font size="-1">related: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-08/heatwaves-to-be-hotter-longer-and-more-often-report-says/8248304">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-08/heatwaves-to-be-hotter-longer-and-more-often-report-says/8248304</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-15/climate-change-blamed-for-australia-extreme-weather-events/8268692">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-15/climate-change-blamed-for-australia-extreme-weather-events/8268692</a></font><br>
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id="MAA4CkgCUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
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style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change Causes Sea Level
Rise to Accelerate 50 Percent in Past 20 years</span></a></h2>
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(Newsweek video) A study published in the journal Nature Climate
Change shows that global sea level rise jumped by 50 percent from
1993 to 2014, the most recent year for which data are available. In
2014, sea levels rose 3.3 millimeters - more than an eighth of an
inch - while in 1993 they ticked up 2.2 millimeters.<br>
The paper found that melting of the Greenland ice sheet is the major
new contributor. In 1993, it accounted for only 5 percent of the
rise, but in 2014 it was responsible for one-quarter of the
increase. The paper looked at satellite measurements and tide
gauges, which measure sea levels around the world.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-causes-sea-level-rise-accelerate-629463">http://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-causes-sea-level-rise-accelerate-629463</a></font><br>
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href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/27/rick-perry-climate-change-trump-stance-240012"
id="MAA4AEgBUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Perry calls for<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>debate, says he
doesn't know Trump's stance</span></a></h2>
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"I've said that time after time," he said, adding that he wanted an
"intellectual conversation" about the impacts of humans on the
climate.<br>
Perry, a two-time GOP presidential candidate and the former governor
of Texas, told CNBC in an interview last week that he does not
believe carbon dioxide emissions to be the main driver of climate
change, a view that puts him at odds with the overwhelming majority
of climate scientists.<br>
Last Thursday, Perry told the Senate Appropriations Committee that
man's impact on climate change "is not settled science." At
Tuesday's briefing, he suggested that the issue could benefit from
more open debate and that he was personally not so dug into his
views that they would not change.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/27/rick-perry-climate-change-trump-stance-240012">http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/27/rick-perry-climate-change-trump-stance-240012</a></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">This professor made a<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>PowerPoint for
Trump, and it will make you smile.</span></a></h2>
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This professor made a climate change PowerPoint for Trump, and it
will make you smile. Ken Schultz, a political science professor at
Stanford University, shared the presentation on Twitter over the
weekend.<br>
The snarky explainer lays out climate change in terms President
Trump can understand - you know, golf, big/beautiful walls, and
YUGE Electoral College victories.<br>
Check out the hilarious thread :<br>
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sig2-S7aqtDKkqneQQNnqHlNkvw did--7085108841247782505"
href="https://futurism.com/professor-piers-forster-climate-change-is-our-shared-responsibility/"
id="MAA4DEgEUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
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style="font-weight: bold;">Professor Piers Forster: <b
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b><span
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Responsibility <br>
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On June 22 he participated in the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/6isyum/american_geophysical_union_ama_hi_reddit_im_piers/">American
Geophysical Union's Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Reddit</a>, where he
opened his mind and expertise up to public questioning.<br>
Forster's outlook, judging from this AMA, and the fact that he's
continuing to push climate science further instead of just giving up
and going home, is surprisingly hopeful. It's not unrealistically
optimistic, but he does explore how it is possible for us, as a
species, to undo what has been done - as much as is possible,
anyway. For now, as technology continues to progress and legislation
changes, it seems it's more and more a matter of personal
responsibility. It's up to all of us, as part of the human species,
to ask if there's more we can do in our daily lives to combat
climate change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://futurism.com/professor-piers-forster-climate-change-is-our-shared-responsibility/">https://futurism.com/professor-piers-forster-climate-change-is-our-shared-responsibility/</a><br>
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id="MAA4AEgDUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate
Change</b>: Giant Hail Set to Batter North America</span></a></h2>
Golf-ball sized hail that can crack car windscreens, damage roofs
and decimate crops are set to become the norm across parts of
North America as a result of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b>. That is
according to a new study in the journal Nature<span
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normal;">Climate Change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that<span
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/watch-national-georgraphics-ashes-free-july-3-1016570">National
Geographic Making New Coal Industry Doc Available for Free</a></b><br>
'From the Ashes' can be viewed on a variety of platforms from June
26-July 3.<br>
YouTube video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUg4QZzggLA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUg4QZzggLA</a><br>
National Geographic is offering free viewing of the new documentary
From the Ashes on a wide array of digital and streaming platforms,
beginning Monday and running through July 3. Michael Bonfiglio's
film looks at communities across America as they wrestle with the
legacy of the coal industry and what its future should be under the
Trump administration.<br>
Nat Geo said it was making the doc available in the wake of
President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate
Agreement to further the "network's commitment to providing
audiences with the resources and knowledge needed to preserve the
planet and change the world."<br>
The film will be available commercial-free and unauthenticated via
YouTube, Facebook, Hulu, Amazon, Google Play and VOD and
unauthenticated on Natgeotv.com and Nat Geo TV Apps (iOS and Android
devices, Apple TV, Roku and Samsung Connected TVs).<br>
"From the Ashes is more relevant than ever. The film explores the
complexities of the coal industry and its impact on the environment,
economy and public health," said Tim Pastore, president of original
programming and production for National Geographic channels. "At
National Geographic, we are committed to furthering the national
dialogue on clean energy and are thrilled to make From the Ashes
available for free across such a wide array of streaming platforms."<br>
In a video message, above, Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg
Philanthropies, says, "Coal affects our lives and planet in
important ways, but people often take positions on it without seeing
the full picture. So this week, National Geographic is making From
the Ashes available for free on a number of platforms. We encourage
family and friends to watch the film and join the CrowdRise campaign
to support organizations that are helping create new jobs in coal
country."<br>
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href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/watch-national-georgraphics-ashes-free-july-3-1016570">http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/watch-national-georgraphics-ashes-free-july-3-1016570</a><br>
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sig2-jyfhB2IXotYbItY9BkPySg did-8145971735388680056"
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-food-supplies-climate-change-international-trade-global-warming-chatham-house-chokepoints-a7808221.html"
id="MAA4DEgFUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
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style="font-weight: bold;">World food supplies at risk as<span
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style="font-weight: bold;">climate change </b>threatens
international trade, warn experts</span></a></h2>
The world's food supplies are in danger as<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and
the increasing reliance on global trade threaten to create
shortages and sudden, dramatic increases in prices, according to a
new report by the leading think tank Chatham House....<br>
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<b>U.S. EPA is asking for nominations to two scientific advisory
committees. </b><br>
Kevin Bogardus and Sean Reilly, E&E News reporters<br>
Published: Monday, June 26, 2017<br>
U.S. EPA is putting the word out that the agency is in the market
for science advisers.<br>
In a notice to be published tomorrow in the Federal Register, EPA is
inviting nominations of "scientific experts from a diverse range of
disciplines" to serve on the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee
as well as the EPA Science Advisory Board, including six of that
panel's subcommittees.<br>
The notice says nominations should be submitted to the agency within
30 days of its publication.<br>
Members of both the advisory committees are scientists and engineers
who work outside of EPA and are appointed to three-year terms by the
agency administrator.<br>
As part of the nomination process, EPA will apparently seek to fill
the seat of its Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee chairwoman,
Dr. Ana Diez Roux, a Drexel University epidemiologist. Diez Roux's
second three-year term on the panel expires at the end of September.<br>
CASAC is charged with advising EPA on possible changes to the
standards for ozone, particulate matter and four other "criteria
pollutants." The committee is in the early stages of a closely
watched review of the particulate matter standard.<br>
Last year, the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, a
conservative-leaning legal group, unsuccessfully sued to disband the
review panel on the grounds that most of its members had received
EPA grants and were thus allegedly biased toward the agency's view
that tighter limits were needed (Greenwire, Aug. 2, 2016).<br>
Also falling short last year was an unusual lobbying campaign
mounted by Michael Honeycutt, the head of toxicology for the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality, for a seat on the committee.
Then-EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy picked another contender
instead (Greenwire, Aug. 26, 2016)<br>
The Science Advisory Board has been the target of congressional
criticism that its current roster of members - drawn mostly from
academia - doesn't include enough representation from those
affected by EPA regulations.<br>
Under H.R. 1431, a bill approved by the House in March, at least 10
percent of the board's members would have to come from state, local
and tribal governments. Industry representatives with a stake in the
board's work would also be allowed to serve as long as any conflicts
of interest are disclosed. The measure is awaiting action by a
Senate committee.<br>
Critics of the Trump administration have expressed worries over how
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt will reshape the agency's science
advisory committees to add members from EPA's regulated industries.<br>
For example, Pruitt has decided to not renew several dozen members'
terms on EPA's Board of Scientific Counselors.<br>
That led to the science board's canceling all of its subcommittee
meetings for the remainder of the year. In an internal email
obtained by E&E News, an EPA official said he hoped that the
panel could resume its work in 2018 (Greenwire, June 20).<br>
EPA is also seeking nominees to fill that advisory committee.
Nominations for BOSC should submitted by Friday of this week
(Greenwire, May 24).<br>
EPA's moves to rework the science board have attracted criticism
that the agency is pushing science aside.<br>
Deborah Swackhamer, a University of Minnesota science professor who
chairs BOSC, said in written testimony for Congress that adding
industry representation to the board "may lead to the perception
that science is being politicized and marginalized within EPA."<br>
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