US environment agency advisory board in turmoil

The Trump administration’s decision not to renew the membership of half the scientists serving on the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 18-member Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) has outraged science organisations. The BOSC is made up of scientists from academia and various state agencies, and the committee is responsible for providing peer review of the science underway in the EPA Office of Research and Development, which ultimately informs US policy in areas like chemicals oversight.