Tim Haab on "[EPA's] rejiggered science advisory board stocked with industry types just killed three committees it has traditionally relied on":
“The message was a surprise,” Timothy Haab, an environmental economist at Ohio State University who was on the economics committee, told Earther. “I fear that losing the advisory committees could jeopardize the objectivity of the science used in making economically sound environmental decisions.”
Source: The EPA Just Killed Three Expert Advisory Committees
Background: There is no longer an Environmental Economics Advisory Committee at the EPA