California Clearing House on Scientific Review Panel

The California Report correspondent Amy Standen recently recounted the dismissal (or failure to reappoint, depending on your perspective) of a group of scientists from CalEPA’s Scientific Review Panel.  Little explanation for the action were given, although Standen notes that John Froines, a professor in the UCLA School of Public Health, also chaired a committee that recently took state regulators to task regarding plans to register methyl iodide as a pesticide.  Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Damien Schiff described the action as a “great victory for the regulated public.”  It is unclear if he includes farm workers and residents near strawberry fields as part of the “regulated public.”

air pollution, methyl iodide, Politics, Scientific Review Panel