paul gilman

<h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Who will be on the panels instead?</h2>Though the agency didn’t release a full list today, Pruitt introduced the new heads of the three main committees.<ul style="font-size: small; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 15px 0px 15px 22.5px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 7.5px;">Michael Honeycutt, lead toxicologist for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in Austin, takes over as chairperson of the Science Advisory Board. Honeycutt has challenged EPA moves to tighten standards for ozone pollution. He replaces Peter Thorne, head of the University of Iowa’s Department of Occupational and Environmental Health in Iowa City.</li></ul><ul style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 15px 0px 15px 22.5px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 7.5px;">The new head of the scientific counselors panel is Tony Cox, an expert in risk analysis whose private consulting firm in Colorado lists industry clients in the oil and chemical industries. It was previously led by Deborah Swackhamer, a professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis who studies toxic chemicals in the environment.</li></ul><ul style="font-size: small; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 15px 0px 15px 22.5px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 7.5px;">On the clean air committee, it’s Paul Gilman, an executive at Covanta, a New Jersey company that handles waste, including incinerating waste to produce energy. He worked at EPA during former President George W. Bush’s administration as the agency’s science adviser. He replaces Ana Diez Roux, an epidemiologist at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 7.5px;"></li></ul>