"EPA leaned heavily on input from Republican politicians and advocacy groups in devising membership standards last year for its sprawling network of advisory committees, according to more than 700 pages of records released late yesterday in response to a federal court order.

But the documents, collectively labeled the "administrative record," offer little evidence of efforts by agency officials to weigh concerns from mainstream scientific or technical organizations before issuing the standards as part of an October directive.

Most notably, the new rules bar current recipients of EPA grants from serving on the Science Advisory Board (SAB) and other panels."

Sean Reilly reports for Greenwire May 24, 2018. [2]