The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on Thursday said it will conduct a “fast-track” review of the most recent scientific evidence on the risks posed by greenhouse gas emissions to public health and welfare.
NASEM, which advises EPA and other agencies on scientific matters, said the review is being paid for through “internal funding” and is intended to be completed and released publicly by September to “inform” EPA’s recent proposal rescinding the 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding.
“It is critical that federal policymaking is informed by the best available scientific evidence,” Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences and the Obama-era head of the U.S. Geological Survey, said in a statement. “Decades of climate research and data have yielded expanded understanding of how greenhouse gases affect the climate. We are undertaking this fresh examination of the latest climate science in order to provide the most up-to-date assessment to policymakers and the public.”
The project committee for NASEM, a congressionally chartered organization, will be led by Shirley Tilghman, a molecular biologist who served as president of Princeton University from 2001 to 2013.
