EPA Sued Over Dismissal of Industry Reps From Committees

The EPA failed to explain why it removed all industry representatives from two advisory committees, and it left the committees unfairly balanced in violation of federal law, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in a Washington, D.C., federal court.

S. Stanley Young, who worked in the pharmaceutical industry and was fired from the agency in March, told the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that the EPA’s actions violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act.

The committees are now unfairly balanced both in points of view and in their performance because they lack someone linked to the industries, the ...