Trump Adviser Calling for Overhaul of ‘Junk Science’ at EPA

  • Staff at regulatory agency should be downsized, Ebell says
  • EPA has ‘gotten away with murder in misusing science’: Ebell

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A former adviser to President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency transition team called for shrinking the regulator and overhauling the way it uses science to set policy.

“They’ve really gotten away with murder in misusing science and justifying regulations on the basis of junk science,” Myron Ebell, who left the transition team he led last week, said in an interview in his Washington office.