"When EPA begins a major review of air pollution standards this week, a researcher who has received funding from an industry group opposed to the rules will be leading the agency's panel.

Tony Cox, who was named chairman of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee by former Administrator Scott Pruitt, accepted funding from the American Petroleum Institute to help finance his research into particulate matter pollution. He also allowed the lobbying group to proofread and copy edit his findings before they were published, according to his own acknowledgements.

It's highly unusual to give an industry group, or anyone who funds scientific work, a chance to influence the outcome of research, according to scientists."

Scott Waldman reports for ClimateWire December 10, 2018. [2]