White House Reviewing List of EPA Advisory Panels to Be Axed

A list of EPA advisory committees that the agency recommends cutting, to comply with an executive order, is under review by the White House, agency staff said Sept. 5.

“The agency has made its recommendations to the White House,” Kevin DeBell acting deputy chief of staff for the Environmental Protection Agency, told the Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC).

“I don’t know if we have heard back from the White House,” he said. But, “I don’t think that members of the CHPAC have anything to worry about,” DeBell said.

DeBell referred to an executive order that President