13. Environmental Protection Agency · Minor
Suspend and review the activities of EPA advisory bodies
Printed page 437 13. Environmental Protection Agency
“Suspend and review the activities of EPA advisory bodies, many of which have not been authorized by Congress or lack independence, balance, and geographic and viewpoint diversity.”
What has happened
- Partially done
Two bodies were reset — CASAC on 2026-03-09 and the Science Advisory Board on 2026-04-17, with a new chair and 36 members. EPA's other advisory bodies were not suspended: the Farm, Ranch and Rural Communities Advisory Committee's charter was renewed on 2025-12-11, the Local Government Advisory Committee's on 2026-01-02, the Environmental Financial Advisory Board's on 2026-03-13, and the Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee's charter was reestablished with a call for nominations on 2026-08-17; the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals, the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel, the Human Studies Review Board, the National Drinking Water Advisory Council, the e-Manifest Advisory Board and the Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee all continued to meet or seek members through the window.
- Administrator Zeldin Announces Selection of Members to the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee
- Administrator Zeldin Announces Selection of Members to the Science Advisory Board
- EPA notice: Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Advisory Committee (FRRCC); Notice of Charter Renewal
- EPA notice: Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee (PPDC); Notice of Charter Reestablishment; Request for Nominations
- Attempted
EPA announced "Reconstituting Science Advisory Board and Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee" as one of the 31 deregulatory actions of 2025-03-12 — a review of two advisory bodies, announced but not yet carried out.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- One negative search covered the EPA science, appointees and advisory bodies asks on pp. 436-437.
- #1050 (“Reset EPA science advisory boards”) is done on the same two announcements. This ask is wider — suspend and review the activities of EPA advisory bodies, plural — and most of them carried on, which is why it is partial and #1050 is not.
- A search of EPA’s Federal Register notices among the federal records we keep and search, for “advisory” or “committee”, gives the charter renewals, nomination requests and meeting notices cited above: 26 records across at least eleven distinct bodies.
- Action
- restrict
- Object
- EPA advisory bodies
- ID
- 1161