by Scott Waldman
ClimateWire

Climate skeptics may soon join a key science advisory panel at U.S. EPA.

A number of people who reject the findings of mainstream climate science are being considered by the Trump administration for spots on EPA’s Science Advisory Board, a voluntary but influential panel that reviews science used in environmental regulations…

The selection of any of those researchers would be the beginning of a very different advisory board that would bear the hallmark of the Trump administration’s position on climate change, said Steve Milloy, an attorney and longtime EPA foe who worked on President Trump’s transition team for the agency.

“Had some other Republican won the presidency and a swamp creature taken over the EPA, this would not be happening,” he said, “but thank God for Scott Pruitt that he’s got the courage to do this.”

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