EPA is abolishing a decades-old advisory panel that provided a rare public forum for outside experts to scrutinize the work of the agency’s efforts to address air pollution.
As President Donald Trump continues a wave of regulatory rollbacks, the Clean Air Act Advisory Committee’s demise removes one body that could have probed the impacts on air quality programs.
The committee is among at least four EPA advisory panels scrapped thus far during Trump’s second term following a White House downsizing directive. EPA is also axing a related air pollution panel, the Mobile Sources Technical Review Subcommittee, which provided independent advice and recommendations on tailpipe and motor fuel regulations.
In an email sent late Thursday to members of the Clean Air Act Advisory Committee and viewed by POLITICO’s E&E News, an EPA liaison wrote that “we have decided to discontinue the CAAAC at this time.”
