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The bill that turned IDEM into an empty shell

SB 277, or “the IDEM agency bill,” should have sailed through both chambers of the general assembly during the 2026 session. In many ways, the bill was a state-level replica of what the Trump administration has been doing to the federal Environmental Protection Agency, the policy equivalent of red meat served up in a red state.

Instead, SB 277 barely squeaked into law. On February 24, Pierce’s colleagues in the House passed the bill by just 8 votes; on February 25, the Senate passed it by 5. And, as the Indiana Capital Chronicle reported, even a margin of 5 wasn’t easy to achieve. “On the last vote on the night in the Senate,” the Chronicle said, the running tally on the vote board for Senate Bill 277 was 22 for and 25 against. To save the GOP bill, “four Republicans changed their no votes to yes, giving it a 26-21 victory.”

This is the story of how SB277 came to be, and how a handful of dedicated advocates and a few thousand engaged Hoosiers nearly derailed Governor Braun’s bid to make himself the chief deregulator in the Midwest.

How SB 277 Became Law

Early meetings with Commissioner Clint Woods

:{Organizations comprising Indiana’s environmental coalition, including HEC, met with Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) Commissioner Clint Woods twice after his appointment by Governor Braun in early 2025. Woods also made himself available for an individual meeting with HEC. During these meetings, the only mention of any upcoming environmental legislative initiatives were references to “cleaning up” outdated references and duplication in Title 13, the section of Indiana Code governing IDEM.

Woods gave no hint that substantive changes to Title 13 were in the works. In fact, as HEC discovered during the 2026 legislative session, the only people invited to contribute to the legislative effort that ultimately became SB 277 were a small, select group of industry representatives. Commissioner Woods chose not to involve any members of the Senate Environmental Affairs Committee, except the Chair, and did not consult with the Ranking Minority Member of that committee. Environmental advocates and the general public were entirely excluded from the process.}:

What we expected

Based on periodic agency internal reviews and on our meetings with the Commissioner, HEC anticipated a 2026 IDEM agency bill primarily comprised of ministerial “clean up” of outdated code citations and references to long-changed federal administrative code, along with some shuffling of duties among IDEM divisions. And, while SB 277 offered much of what we had expected to see, it offered much, much more that we had not.

What was delivered

Late in the day on Thursday, January 8, 2026 – just hours before the January 9 deadline for Senators to introduce new bills – SB 277 was filed; all 176 pages of the bill became publicly available on the Indiana General Assembly (IGA) website and SB 277 was immediately set for its first and only hearing in the Senate Committee on Environmental Affairs at 9:30 a.m., Monday, January 12. Instead of a brief, ministerial clean-up bill, SB 277 proposed dozens of substantive changes to Title 13, every one of which could have serious consequences for all Hoosiers.

And HEC had a single business day (and a weekend) to digest and analyze it.

Since the Chair was the only member of the Environmental Affairs Committee (as far as we know) to have a copy of SB 277 prior to its filing on January 8, there was no meaningful opportunity for other committee members to draft amendments to be offered during the January 12 hearing. HEC was among a number of allied organizations to testify against the bill’s glaring and substantive changes to air water and land protections during that hearing. In our testimony, we noted that SB 277, as introduced:

Nevertheless, SB 277 passed out of the Senate Committee on Environmental Affairs on a party line vote, 5-3.

On January 22, the bill made a brief stop in the Senate Appropriations Committee, where it once again passed on a party line vote, 9-4, with minor amendments. The bill was debated on the Senate floor on January 28 and 29, with only one non-substantive amendment accepted. The first full Senate vote was close, 29-19, with 9 Republican senators joining all 10 Senate Democrats in voting against the bill.

Dealings in the House

As the Senate Committee on Environmental Affairs had done, the House Committee on Environmental Affairs gave SB 277 a single hearing, on February 11. During this hearing, the committee chair introduced an unexpected amendment to the bill to effectively prohibit IDEM from regulating thousands of PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” by narrowly defining the subset of PFAS-related compounds that would be subject to IDEM control. The amendment also prohibited IDEM from considering scientific findings made by EPA with respect to risk assessments of toxic substances. Concerns and amendments from the committee’s minority members were not considered, and SB 277 passed out of the House Committee on Environmental Affairs, 6-5.

Multiple House members made heroic efforts to amend or defeat SB 277 during its second reading on the House floor on February 23. In all, twelve amendments that HEC supported were offered; only two were accepted, resulting in slight improvements to the bill. SB 277’s House sponsor offered an amendment that prevailed, but it removed only part of the offending PFAS and risk language that he introduced into the bill in his committee. The bill passed the full House on February 24 by a vote of 53-45. Fifteen majority members voted to defeat the bill.

HEC and the Coalition nearly defeat the bill

Beginning on January 8 and continuing through the final vote on SB 277, HEC and coalition members Indiana Conservation Voters, Earth Charter Indiana, Conservation Law Center, Save the Dunes, Citizens Action Coalition and Sierra Club Indiana Chapter, made monumental efforts to educate legislators and advocate against passage of the bill. Tim Maloney (retired HEC Policy Director), League of Women Voters, Indiana Wildlife Federation and Stand for Health Freedom all offered important assists. In the end, 12 majority senators were convinced to vote against SB 277, for a final vote of 25-21. Four others majority senators initially voted against the bill, but switched their vote under pressure from leadership while the voting board was held open for a rare and extended period. Had those four held firm, our coalition would have defeated SB 277, 21-25.

These factors influenced the result

HEC was part of a strong and coordinated team across many environmental and conservation organizations, and we worked effectively with the MAHA movement (Stand for Health Freedom) because of the negative impact SB 277 will have on individual Hoosiers’ health. HEC also garnered early majority support, conducted excellent grassroots messaging and action, and worked relentlessly against the bill over the session’s eight weeks. Yet, the technical and legal complexity of this legislation, together with the short time frame for consideration, made our opposition more difficult. Ultimately, SB 277 was pushed by the Governor and his fast-talking IDEM Commissioner in a compressed legislative session where many other important bills also had to be considered.

As Senator Glick said in urging her colleagues to defeat the bill, cautioning against moving too fast with loss of significant protections, “This is our environment. This is the world we live in and the one we’re going to pass on to the next generation…This is the air we breathe, and the water we drink, and the land we share.” This simple but powerful message was sadly lost on many of Indiana’s leaders, including Governor Braun, who signed the bill into law on March 5.

HEC supporters sent more than 3,000 messages opposing SB 277 to their Indiana Representatives and/or Senators, joining the efforts of our coalition to sound the alarm on this bill early and often while providing sound scientific and legal analysis. Our combined efforts resulted in some improvements to the bill – and a growing awareness that, together, we can make a difference for Indiana. With the help of more thoughtful and forward-thinking Hoosiers, HEC and its supporters will continue bringing our message to the Statehouse with increasing power to prevail.

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Meet hashtag#IDEM's new Commissioner, Clint Woods.

Clint Woods serves as the 10th Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. Indiana Governor Mike Braun appointed Mr. Woods to the position in February 2025.

As Commissioner, Mr. Woods leads the agency in its mission to implement federal and state regulations to protect human health and the environment while allowing the environmentally sound operations of industrial, agricultural, commercial, and governmental activities vital to a prosperous economy.

Before joining IDEM, Mr. Woods was the deputy assistant administrator for Air and Radiation at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 2017 to 2019. He also worked as executive director for the Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies and in positions with the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, the American Legislative Exchange Council, and the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association. He has also served on several state and national committees, including the U.S. Group on Earth Observations of the National Science and Technology Council and the National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology.

Mr. Woods holds an MA in international commerce and policy from George Mason University and a BA from the University of Mary Washington.

"I'm honored and thrilled to join IDEM as the new Commissioner and represent such a premiere environmental agency and all the great public servants who work here. I'm very excited to work to make sure we're accelerating environmental progress and ensuring that our agency is responsive to Hoosiers from all parts of the state."

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Inside the Project 2025 plan to gut climate regs

By Jean Chemnick | 07/18/2024

The conservative outline for a second Trump presidency offers detailed steps for weakening EPA.

A paint-by-numbers plan to weaken EPA has been prepared for former President Donald Trump by his past advisers. Francis Chung/POLITICO

There’s a playbook for how a second Trump administration could pull back climate regulations.

The EPA chapter of the much-vaunted Project 2025 blueprint is stocked with ideas for how political appointees could use a second Trump term to remake agency org charts, defang enforcement and disperse Washington-based staff to regional offices. But the document — spearheaded by the conservative Heritage Foundation — also catalogs tactics for relaxing regulation in ways that might reverberate beyond the next four years.

Former President Donald Trump has distanced himself from the initiative — a sprawling guide on how executive branch authorities and agencies could serve a conservative agenda. But many of its authors served in the first Trump administration and are likely candidates for a second one.

Dave Banks, a former Trump climate adviser, said the document would serve more as a wishlist for past and future officials than a reflection of the president’s own priorities.

“I think the big question is, are the people who wrote it going to be back in?” he said. “And I think there’s a strong likelihood that a lot of the folks who worked on Project 2025 will end up in a Trump 2.0, if that happens.”

Mandy Gunasekara, the Trump EPA chief of staff who penned the project’s chapter on EPA, left open the possibility that she might return to the William Jefferson Clinton Building that serves as the agency’s headquarters.

“That’s a question for the president to ask, and an answer for me to give with my husband and family,” she said. “And we’re not there yet.”

Most of the regulatory policies included in her 28-page chapter seem cut from the same cloth as those EPA attempted in the first Trump administration. They were rescinded under President Joe Biden or overturned in court.

But some are new, like a proposal to shrink the pool of industries required to report their greenhouse gas emissions each year to EPA.

Just the fact that the policies are being explored in a widely circulated document marks a departure from 2016. The Trump EPA transition team that formed after his surprise victory eight years ago was famously long on infighting and short on planning. Political appointees were slow to arrive and key components of Trump’s deregulatory agenda were thrown out in court.

Project 2025 would revive some of those rules. For example, the EPA chapter advises the agency to “make public and take comment on all scientific studies and analyses that support regulatory decision-making.” That dovetails with a Trump-era “secret science” rule that was vacated in 2021.

Gunasekara said an incoming EPA team could avoid similar outcomes by “applying lessons learned” from the first Trump term.

“It’s very different regulating from the inside versus applying oversight from the outside,” said Gunasekara, one of several Trump EPA officials who came to EPA from congressional committees. Gunasekara was a staffer on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee under the late Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), as was Trump’s second EPA Administrator, Andrew Wheeler.

Mandy Gunasekara, former EPA chief of staff, left open the possibility of working for Trump if he wins the election. | Rogelio V. Solis/AP.

Gunasekara blamed first term policy failures in part on resistance from career staff — something Project 2025 would take pains to root out through extensive structural and workforce changes. She also acknowledged that the Trump administration sometimes cut corners — something she said wouldn’t be repeated.

“The biggest difference is we have a plan from Day One, we’re going to start implementing it, and we won’t be as susceptible to process problems that really sunk a couple of those final regulatory proposals and actions we took at the tail end of the administration,” said Gunasekara, who spoke by phone with POLITICO’s E&E News as she attended the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Gunasekara said four Trump-era political appointees helped write the chapter: David Harlow, Scott Mason IV, Justin Schwab and Clint Woods. Schwab declined to comment, and the others did not respond to requests for interviews.

The bulk of the chapter is devoted to reshaping EPA — “an agency that has long been amenable to being coopted by the Left for political ends” — into an entity suited to carry out a “conservative vision.”

The sections devoted to regulation ricochet between improbable suggestions and superspecific head-scratchers.

“It does have this kind of spaghetti-against-the-wall approach,” said James Goodwin, policy director at the Center for Progressive Reform. “Literally everything and the kitchen sink is in there.”

For example, the chapter proposes that EPA “update” the 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health and the environment. That’s the bedrock finding behind all Clean Air Act climate regulations, and has been targeted by some of the conservative groups behind Project 2025 — such as the Heartland Institute — since the finding’s inception.

But reversing it would be a legally tricky — and potentially more complicated after last month’s Supreme Court decision curtailing agency authority.

The Trump administration’s own EPA lawyers rejected a petition by a conservative think tank to reconsider the endangerment finding. They noted in emails obtained by E&E News that it remained consistent with scientific assessments by federal research bodies.

“If they were to revisit the endangerment finding based on the latest science, it is only more dire,” said Rachel Cleetus, climate policy director at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

“If anything, the 2009 endangerment finding is softballing the kind of impacts that are now already clear around us,” she said, referring to the effects of climate change.

But the chapter also provides a menu of wonky-sounding proposals that could narrow the scope of regulations, including for climate pollutants.

“This goes beyond many of the things that they did in the first Trump administration,” said Stan Meiburg, a former EPA acting deputy administrator. “It certainly is a very ambitious document, and incorporates ideas that go all the way back to the Reagan administration.”

Maximizing cost, minimizing benefits

Many of the regulatory proposals target EPA practices around cost-benefit analysis. There’s a reason for that: It’s generally harder for an agency to justify standards if their costs exceed their benefits.

Meiburg said the Reagan-era move to embrace cost-benefit analysis gave cost considerations the upper hand.

“Costs are specific and tend to be more quantifiable, and benefits tend to be more diffuse and less quantifiable, even though, in aggregate, they are larger,” said Meiburg.

Project 2025 proposes that EPA issue a rule to ensure “consistent and transparent consideration of costs.” Gunasekara said this would likely be a “very similar rule” to one introduced by the first Trump EPA, which was later voided by the Biden administration.

The rule promulgated under Wheeler was the first of its kind, and some experts say it could face longer odds now, when courts defer less to agencies on policy.

The EPA chapter also instructs the agency to “use appropriate discount rates, focus on the benefits of reducing the pollutant targeted by Congress, identify ‘co-benefits’ separately, and acknowledge the uncertainties involved in quantifying benefits.”

Discount rates are applied to future benefits that come at a present cost — such as avoided climate risk stemming from near-term emissions reductions.

“Basically, the higher the discount rate, the less argument there is for making investments now, because why would you spend money on this when you could make that money get a higher return doing something else?” said Meiburg.

During the Trump administration, discount rates were high, so the value of avoiding future climate change was low — somewhere between $1 and $7 per ton of carbon dioxide.

Project 2025 urges the agency to “revise guidance documents” for the so-called social cost of carbon, while another chapter proposes ending its use altogether.

Co-benefits — a rule’s health and environmental advantages that aren’t tied directly to reducing a targeted pollutant — have been persona non grata with conservatives for years. But the Trump EPA did count them in its climate rules — which showed minuscule benefits due in part to low social cost values for greenhouse gases.

Jason Schwartz, policy director at the Institute for Policy Integrity, said sidelining benefits could make rules less legally durable.

“I think that the court says have been clear in a number of cases that it would actually be arbitrary for an agency to ignore — or to really treat differently — co-benefits or indirect costs,” he said.

Gunasekara said co-benefits would still be analyzed.

“But it should be very clear, if EPA is going after one pollutant, what are the relative costs and benefit of [reducing] that one pollutant?” she said.

The goal, she said, should be “to ensure that there is increased transparency and understanding to the American public about cost-benefit justifications for the reduction of various pollutants.”

Transparency

Transparency is one of the chapter’s prevailing themes. That’s how the document frames its bid to require the data from all scientific studies underpinning regulation to be made public — effectively barring research that utilizes anonymous datasets.

But critics warn that many of its suggestions would create information gaps that would make it harder for EPA to maintain inventories of the greenhouse gas emissions — and ultimately to regulate them.

“It’s basically like two blades of a scissors,” said Goodwin of the Center for Progressive Reform. “These cost-benefit analysis rules are demanding more information. But the other blade is making it harder for EPA to get that information in the first place. And you can see how they come together.”

EPA currently requires 41 high-emitting sectors to report their greenhouse gas emission each year. About 8,000 facilities within those sectors — chosen because they exceed certain emissions thresholds — is the basis of EPA’s annual greenhouse gas inventory. The data has numerous purposes, including as an input for EPA regulatory decisions.

But Project 2025 would limit reporting to the few sectors currently being regulated for greenhouse gas emissions — such as power plants and oil and gas production. It would exempt major emitters in other sectors, such as municipal landfills, iron, steel and cement manufacturing, and carbon capture and storage.

The chapter said this would eliminate costly requirements borne by small businesses.

“This is either a pointless burden or a sword-of-Damocles threat of future regulation, neither of which is appropriate,” the document states.

But suspending annual greenhouse gas reporting for the four years of a second Trump term could delay regulation of new sectors during a subsequent administration by depriving it of needed data. It would reduce the scope of information available to scientific agencies that track emissions.

It could also make it impossible for the U.S. to fulfill its obligations as a party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which requires an annual accounting of emissions and carbon sinks. The Senate formally ratified the treaty in 1992 and the U.S. remained a party to it under Trump, even as the administration moved to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.

Gunasekara said she’d urge “the next conservative administration” to withdraw from the UNFCCC as well as Paris, which she said required the U.S. to make painful cuts while giving other countries “a free pass.”

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[### EPA appointee faces blowback in move to academia

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EPA appointee faces blowback in move to academia

Sean Reilly, E&E News reporter

Published: Friday, November 22, 2019

Last month, former deputy EPA air chief Clint Woods took a newly minted job at Ohio State University to forge "strategic partnerships" with outside organizations.

EPA appointee faces blowback in move to academia

Greenwire: Friday, November 22, 2019

Last month, former deputy EPA air chief Clint Woods took a newly minted job at Ohio State University to forge "strategic partnerships" with outside organizations.

His more immediate challenge, however, may be to build bridges on campus.

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Clint Woods. | Clint Woods/LinkedIn

While at EPA, Woods was in the thick of industry-backed efforts to ease air pollution regulations and limit the agency’s use of science, his work calendar indicates. That role is now fueling blowback from some Ohio State students and faculty, who also question the school’s gauzy description of what Woods is supposed to be doing in return for a six-figure yearly salary.

"We believe the hiring of an individual tied closely with environmental regulation rollbacks to be a direct threat to our research mission," three students in the university’s School of Environment and Natural Resources graduate program wrote in an online petition that attracted almost 570 signers, many identifying themselves as members of the Ohio State community.

Voicing similar qualms is the Council of Graduate Students, a universitywide organization. In the past, Woods has "directly advocated against" the university’s stated values and the scientific consensus on issues of "sustainability, environmental stewardship and public health," the council said in a resolution approved earlier this month. The group also sought an explanation of the rationale for Woods’ appointment and what set him apart from some 30 other applicants for the job.

Victoria Abou-Ghalioum. | Victoria Abou-Ghalioum/LinkedIn

"I would say [I’m] skeptical about the hiring process and also about the purpose of the position," Victoria Abou-Ghalioum, who helped draft the online petition, said in a phone interview. For most signers, she said, the goal is not to have Woods fired, but to find out "why this is happening, who is he and what is his role."

A face-to-face meeting with Woods involving a handful of faculty and students last week yielded few concrete answers, Abou-Ghalioum said. The petition, delivered this week to Cathann Kress, dean of OSU’s College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CFAES), seeks to air questions in a public forum.

Kress did not respond to phone and email requests for an interview. Woods also did not reply to emailed questions seeking comment on students’ concerns.

He started as the college’s director of strategic partnerships last month. Footing the bill for his $132,000 salary is a foundation of the Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. Like the university, Nationwide is based in Columbus, Ohio’s capital and largest city. The job carries a two-year term.

A newcomer to academia

Woods, who began his career with a trade group for the recreational vehicle industry, is a newcomer to academia, his LinkedIn profile indicates.

Before joining EPA in late 2017, he had spent almost 3 ½ years as executive director of the Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies, a right-leaning group of state and local regulators that sometimes opposed Obama-era policies. From 2011 to 2014, he was a Republican professional staffer on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. For part of that time, the panel was chaired by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), a champion of the oil and gas industry and ardent skeptic of the scientific consensus that human activities are driving climate change. Woods also spent about a year at the corporation-backed American Legislative Exchange Council.

During a 22-month tenure at EPA, Woods participated in meetings related to a host of air pollution policies that the agency ultimately sought to relax or repeal, according to calendar entries obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Those included restrictions on industrial air toxics, the legal underpinning for regulations on power plant mercury emissions and long-term vehicle fuel economy standards. He was also involved in talks over a proposed rule to limit EPA’s use of scientific studies in crafting major regulations, the entries show.

If detractors saw Woods as an elbow-swinging operative, colleagues who shared his agenda describe him as admirably committed and effective.

"He’s very smart, and he’s very passionate about the issues," said Mandy Gunasekara, another former air office appointee, who expects Woods to ultimately prevail over a "small but loud" group of student critics. While at EPA, he was skilled at bringing together career and political staff, Gunasekara said.

"If he can do that at today’s EPA," she said, "he will no doubt be successful at Ohio State and elsewhere."

‘We’re still trying to figure this out’

Kress announced Woods’ appointment to faculty and staff in September, saying in an email that he would facilitate "connections between external partners and scholarship to action through a breadth of complex collaborations and partnerships" (Greenwire, Sept. 9).

Sherrie Whaley, a college spokeswoman, used similar language in an email exchange with E&E News earlier this month. Among other duties, Woods is charged with engaging "faculty fellows and colleges to create large-scale campus project portfolios with high potential for practical impact that will attract external partner interest," she said. Whaley did not respond to a question asking whether Kress intends to address any of the petitioners’ requests.

Robyn Wilson. | Robyn Wilson/LinkedIn

It remains unclear whom Woods is expected to connect with and how aware school administrators were of his professional background before giving him a job in a wing of the university that includes its School of Environment and Natural Resources.

"We’re still trying to figure this out and put the pieces together," said Robyn Wilson, a professor in the school, where faculty members have also sought more information from Kress, thus far without a response.

Under a policy imposed shortly before Woods’ arrival at EPA, Wilson was forced to forfeit her seat on an agency advisory committee as a condition of continued involvement in an EPA-funded research project (Greenwire, Jan. 19, 2018). She remains a plaintiff in one of several lawsuits that challenged the policy, so far without success. "I know that my colleagues have brought it up to him," she said.

Woods’ past affiliations and track record "could be construed by some as undermining science," said Alia Dietsch, another faculty member at the School of Environment and Natural Resources. While partnerships can be beneficial, she said, the school has been around for 50 years and already has many partnerships "that we don’t want to undermine."

Even so, Dietsch credits Woods for meeting with students last week as well as attending a faculty meeting soon afterward, and then an Ohio Environmental Council gala over the weekend. "I think he’s been as proactive as he can, under the consideration that he may not have realized how many concerns there were about him," she said.

Cathann Kress. | Cathann Kress/LinkedIn

According to Whaley, the university conducted a national search to fill the job. Besides Kress, the five-member search committee included the head of OSU’s fundraising and marketing office, a senior professor, and top executives with Nationwide and the Ohio Farm Bureau.

Like Kress, none of the other four agreed to interview requests. In an email, a Nationwide spokesman said that the foundation’s work with the college focuses on the goal of "food security" and that the company does not dictate hiring decisions. Woods "will be a great asset to the university as he forms collaborations that will make for stronger partnerships for CFAES and, in turn, will strengthen Ohio agriculture as a whole," Adam Sharp, the farm bureau executive, said in a statement released through a spokesman.

Woods had joined EPA under then-air chief Bill Wehrum, who abruptly resigned in June. Woods formally notified the agency in late July that he was pursuing the Ohio State job, according to a filing obtained by E&E News under the Freedom of Information Act.

The university, a public institution, has not yet responded to E&E News’ open records request filed last month seeking a recording of Woods’ presentation to the search committee during his interview that same month, along with any feedback received on his candidacy.

Kress has, however, agreed to meet next week with members of a Sierra Club student coalition that has also asked for more information, according to a representative of the group.

In an editorial last month, The Columbus Dispatch endorsed students’ unease about Woods’ hiring and voiced hope that his work for Ohio State "will be a departure from his career to date."

After last week’s meeting with Woods, Abou-Ghalioum was also optimistic that his position could ultimately be a plus for the school, but for now she remains unconvinced.

"We haven’t received any assurances," she said, "that appropriate checks and balances will be in place."

*Reporter Kevin Bogardus contributed.

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Enstrom's 'Odd Man Out' Study

Enstrom's study almost wasn't published. "I have never read a paper that so willfully ignored the breadth of scientific evidence and attacked a specific study/group of investigators," said a reviewer for the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the scientific journals that rejected the manuscript.

But Enstrom finally got the paper in print by reaching out to Edward Calabrese, a toxicologist at the University of Massachusetts, who had submitted a letter in support of Enstrom during his fight with UCLA.

Calabrese was a founder of the International Dose Response Society,an organization that holds that exposure to low doses of toxic agents can be beneficial—a position embraced by many industry groups and rejected by many advocates of strong environmental protection policies.

He was also the editor of the society's journal, Dose-Response. Aware of the controversy Enstrom's study would stir, Calabrese agreed to publish, but warned Enstrom he would give the authors Enstrom challenged a chance to respond. "I said you'll have to take your whacks by the people you're going to hit, and they're formidable people," Calabrese recalled.

In fact, the authors of the original ACS study and the Health Effects Institute (HEI) reanalysis soon published a detailed response, citing a litany of problems they had identified in Enstrom's work.

The most significant fault, they wrote, was Enstrom's use of old, county-level PM 2.5 readings instead of employing newer methods now widely used to estimate exposure more precisely. The authors of the critique had just published their latest follow-up study of the ACS cohort, using seven different methods of estimating pollution, including satellite remote sensing, and finding even more significant associations between PM 2.5 exposure and premature death.

Enstrom rejected the critiques of his study—in fact, in an interview last year, he refused to accept that the substance of his work had been called into question at all.

"This is an old tactic that's used by people who don't want to address fundamental issues," Enstrom said. "Instead of addressing what I did, they use the tactic of looking at what I didn't do, and which they know I can't do. It's a miracle that I was able to do what I did do, because of all the efforts to stop me, and the fact that this data is not available outside their little clique."

Changing the Rules

Enstrom's study was well-timed to figure into U.S. air pollution policy decision-making. As Trump took office, the EPA was already launching its re-assessment of the state of current science on PM 2.5, as the law requires the agency to do every few years for key pollutants to ensure that Clean Air Act regulations are adequate.

This time around, there was major new science on PM 2.5 to consider, including one of the largest studies ever, a Harvard analysis of the health records of 60 million Medicare recipients. It indicated that lowering PM 2.5 pollution nationwide by just 1 microgram per cubic meter would save 12,000 American lives annually. The research found the risk of premature death for African Americans in the study was three times as great as that for the general population.

But how the EPA weighed the science was affected profoundly by the changes made at the agency by Trump's team, who borrowed the ideas and rhetoric that industry foes of regulation had honed in the 25-year battle over PM 2.5. Several members of Trump's transition team, including Milloy, were longtime warriors in the campaign to discredit the science.

Trump's first EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, accelerated the schedule for considering the adequacy of the national PM 2.5 science by two years, so that the review could be concluded by the end of Trump's first term in office. And in the name of "sound science" and "independence," Pruitt barred recipients of EPA grants from serving on agency science advisory boards. Since the EPA is one of the largest funders of environmental science, the move had the effect of knocking prominent experts off the committees.

To replace them, Pruitt and his successor, Wheeler, named industry-friendly state regulators and consultants for regulated industries, who faced no similar conflict-of-interest bar.Wheeler eliminated altogether a separate 20-person expert panel on particulate matter. It was precisely the sort of overhaul that Milloy and Enstrom had sought in their 2016 lawsuit against the EPA.

The agency's rank and file was still staffed with scientists who predated Trump, and they gave Enstrom's paper little weight when they considered it against the bulk of evidence on PM 2.5. The staff scientists cited more than 2,600 scientific studies in a nearly 2,000-page analysis finalized on Dec. 31, 2019. It affirmed the EPA's long-standing conclusion that PM 2.5 was a cause of early death. In a separate analysis, EPA staff recommended a stricter national standard for fine particulate matter pollution.

But the Trump administration's revamped six-member Clean Air Science Advisory Committee saw things differently. Chaired by statistician Louis Anthony Cox, a Denver consultant for the American Petroleum Institute and other industry groups, the CASAC urged that the agency require a much higher burden of proof for assessing pollution's health harms.

Enstrom's 2005 study was included in the list of studies that the committee said raised doubt about the link between PM 2.5 and premature death. And one CASAC member, Sabine Lange, a toxicologist for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, wrote in a separate attachment that Enstrom's 2017 study could be an effective challenge to the seminal American Cancer Society research.

"The Enstrom study had a finer resolution, so one would guess that it had less exposure error and therefore possibly a greater effect estimate, or one with narrower confidence intervals," she wrote.

Last month, when the EPA announced it would not strengthen the pollution standard, Wheeler cited the committee's report and the doubts about the  PM 2.5 science to justify the decision. "We've identified a lot of uncertainties," he said.

Andrew Wheeler, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, arrives for a House Appropriations Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on March 4, 2020.

Currently, Wheeler is moving forward with an initiative to change how the agency weighs science in the future. The proposal, called "Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science," is essentially the idea that Smith attempted to move through Congress three years ago, barring the EPA from basing decisions on studies that rely on patients' confidential medical data, as the original ACS and Harvard Six Cities PM 2.5 studies did.

A wide array of health, medical and science organizations oppose Wheeler's decision not to raise the PM 2.5 standard decision. On April 14, 19 health and medical organizations, led by the American Lung Association, said in a statement that the Trump EPA had employed a "deeply flawed" process and ignored "powerful, overwhelming evidence" that the current PM 2.5 standard is inadequate.

Scientists and health organizations are also fighting the so-called "transparency" rule—critics say even the name has an Orwellian ring to it, because the proposed regulation is not transparent about its purpose.

The public comment period on the proposed rule ended May 18, while the deadline for the public to weigh in on the PM 2.5 standard is June 29. "The way I see it, now, all the pieces are falling into place" in the Trump administration's plan for weakened regulation, said Gretchen Goldman, research director for the Union of Concerned Scientists' Center for Science and Democracy.

She said the purge of the science advisory boards, the appointments of industry consultants to the advisory committee and other changes to the process have helped obscure the strong scientific consensus around the risks of PM 2.5, while elevating the importance of the work of scientists like Enstrom.

"These contrarian scientists really have the ear of the EPA in ways they never had before," Goldman said. "People like Enstrom provide the appearance of an independent scientist weighing in, and It all works together to get where we are—a rule that does not protect health with an adequate margin of safety."

H. Christopher Frey, a professor of environmental engineering at North Carolina State University, who was a member of the particulate matter expert panel that Wheeler disbanded, said that the changes made under the Trump administration amounted to a rigging of the process. "If I wanted to design a science review that would have a predetermined outcome favorable to the regulated industries, I would get rid of the real experts," he said.

Members of the disbanded panel, in fact, felt so strongly about the issue that they met on their own and submitted a report to EPA endorsing the agency staff's finding that the PM 2.5 standard needed to be strengthened.

Frey said Enstrom's argument—that his study has refuted the 1995 ACS study, and therefore, the EPA's PM 2.5 standard should be withdrawn—reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the process.

"The standards are not set based on a single study, and they're not withdrawn based on a single study," Frey said. "It's the overall body of evidence that is important."

'A Journey Almost Impossible to Comprehend'

Enstrom said recently that although he thinks there is no need for a PM 2.5 standard at all, he is gratified by Wheeler's decision to maintain the current standard and to move forward with the "transparency" rule.

"It shows the value of persistence in terms of believing in honest science and trying to penetrate what seems like an impenetrable wall of dishonesty and deception," he said. His struggle to be recognized, he added, was "a journey that is almost impossible to comprehend. It's just been incredibly contentious and for what purpose I'm not sure I know, other than just deliberate power, power and ego."

During a recent phone interview, Enstrom detoured frequently into speculation about "the other side" in the air pollution science debate.

He complained that air pollution studies authored by"activist Canadians" should not be the basis for U.S. environmental regulations. And he noted that a Chinese businessman's family foundation has helped fund the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and that Chinese doctoral students were co-authors on the school's air pollution studies.

"Do you see any of these Harvard people going over to China or central Africa where you do have air pollution problems?" Enstrom asked. "No. Their only goal is to force more regulation on Americans."

Enstrom expressed particular outrage about a pre-publication study recently released by a Harvard group that foundPM 2.5 levels in the United States to be associated with higher death rates from Covid-19. (The researchers have since revised their findings to reflect a lower, but still significant, association). Enstrom has published his own calculations of the pandemic's effects in the conservative Heritage Foundation's publication, The Daily Signal.Averaging counts of total mortality in the United States by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the five weeks ending April 4, early in the pandemic, he concluded that deaths were no higher than expected. And based on those numbers, Enstrom wrote, "It's possible that the lethality of Covid-19 is no greater than that of the seasonal flu."

Since then, the CDC's weekly death counts have been as much as 36 percent higher than expected, and the agency estimates that Covid-19 is at least 10 times more deadly than the flu. Enstrom said he remains convinced that the impact in the U.S. is limited geographically, primarily to New York, and that public officials have overreacted. Although the loss of life was significant in the flu pandemic of 1917-1918, Enstrom said, "The country dealt with it. It was terrible, but it was not something to shut down the entire economy."

Recently, Enstrom has sent personal emails to scientists and public interest groups who have criticized the Trump administration's review of PM 2.5 science, asking them to discuss his evidence that "there is NO causal relationship between PM 2.5 and total mortality in the U.S."

So far, he lamented recently, no one has responded.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in April 2018 proposed relaxing standards related to how it assesses the effects of exposure to low levels of toxic chemicals on public health.

Now, correspondence obtained by the LA Times revealed just how deeply involved industry lobbyists and a controversial, industry-funded toxicologist were in drafting the federal agency's proposal to scrap its current, protective approach to regulating toxin exposure.

The proposed change came just two weeks after atop EPA official contacted toxicologist Ed Calabrese, whose claim that low doses of carcinogens and radiation are healthy stressors akin to physical exercise that activate the body's repair mechanisms has been panned by more mainstream researchers.

"I wanted to check to see if you might have some time in the next couple of days for a quick call to discuss a couple of items … "EPA deputy assistant administrator Clint Woods wrote to Calabrese.

The EPA's proposed regulation, signed by then-Administrator Scott Pruitt and published in the U.S. Government's Federal Register, copied Calabrese's recommendations to Woods almost verbatim.

Calabrese, who was also quoted in the EPA's press release for the proposal, celebrated the announcement in an email to former coal and tobacco lobbyist Steve Milloy, who served on President Donald Trump's EPA transition team.

"This is a major big time victory," Calabrese wrote. Milloy, who is also a Fox News commentator, replied that it was "YUGE."

The EPA's proposal is a departure from its long-time "linear no-threshold" approach to regulating the study of toxins: once a substance is found to be harmful at one level, the danger applies at all levels. In other words, there can be no safe level of radiation exposure.

Calabrese argues this approach is overly cautious and a financial detriment to industry. The new rule would require that regulators look at "various threshold models across the exposure range" for pollutants.

Low doses of otherwise toxic chemicals can be beneficial to human health in specific clinical situations, the LA Times noted, but experiments have produced mixed results and experts say it would be a risk to apply the findings to regulation for the general public.

"There is no way to control the dose a person gets from an industrial or agricultural chemical," David Jacobs, a professor of public health at the University of Minnesota, told the newspaper. "It's not being doled out in pills and monitored by a physician who can lower it if the patient isn't responding well."

The EPA has not announced a date for when it will make a decision on the rule proposal.

Health experts believe that if the EPA does adopt the rule, it could lead to wholesale changes to the agency's standards for regulating toxic waste, pesticides, and air and water quality.

"Industry has been pushing for this for a long time," George Washington University professor of environmental and occupational health David Michaels told the LA Times. "Not just the chemical industry, but the radiation and tobacco industries too."

Calabrese has long been connected to these industries and has received funding from tobacco firm R.J. Reynolds, Dow Chemical, Exxon Mobil and others, the LA Times reported.

Calabrese's role in the EPA's proposal illustrates how the Trump administration has pursued environmental policy recommendations from industry lobbyists based on research running counter to mainstream science.

According to the LA Times, Calabrese first emailed Milloy about whether it would be possible to get the EPA to abandon the linear no-threshold model in September 2017, not even nine months after Trump was sworn into office.

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A key member in the Trump administration who helped roll back air-quality regulations will begin a new job Monday at Ohio State University. Clint Woods, who previously worked as a senior appointee in the U.S. EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, will now be the director of strategic partnerships at the university’s College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. In his new role, Woods will help build external partnerships with the university.

A former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency senior adviser in the Trump administration who was instrumental in the rollback of air-pollution regulations will begin a new job Monday at Ohio State University.

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Woods is the first in the new position, which is being funded by Nationwide Insurance’s foundation for a two-year term. His annual salary is $132,000.}:

“This position is part of our university land-grant focus to engage partners. We are growing public/private partnerships. The director for strategic partnerships will lead efforts to fully engage community members, stakeholders and other partners,” Cathann Kress, the college’s dean, said in an emailed statement.

Woods was chosen from about 30 people by a search committee that included Kress; two other CFAES officials; Devin Fuhrman, a vice president at Nationwide Insurance; and Adam Sharp, Ohio Farm Bureau executive vice president.

“This committee provided feedback to university representatives who made the hiring decision. The Nationwide Foundation’s funding directed to the CFAES supports programs, research and facilities that work toward the goal of food security across the United States. We do not dictate to the university who is hired as a condition of that funding,” Joe Case, a Nationwide Insurance spokesman, said in an email.

In his new role, Woods will be able to build a team of eight employees to “engage stakeholders throughout the state and earn their support for the educational, research and economic development capabilities” of Ohio State, university officials said.

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According to an internal email sent out by Kress announcing his hire, Woods prior to joining the EPA worked as “executive director of [Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies], a national association of state and local environmental agencies, including Ohio EPA and several city and county agencies in Ohio.”}:

In his cover letter, Woods told university officials: “I have a unique combination of long-range planning, community outreach, environmental and agricultural policy, and grant and nonprofit management experience, including work to translate complex technical and scientific information into policy-relevant material for officials at all levels of government ...”

“Clinton Woods will be a great asset to the university as he forms collaborations that will make for stronger partnerships for CFAES and, in turn, will strengthen Ohio agriculture as a whole,” said Sharp.

:{Environmental organizations at the national level have expressed disapproval of the college’s choice for the position.:{}:

“Clint Woods was a key player for the historically disastrous environmental destruction campaign of Andrew Wheeler and Donald Trump, and no respectable institution should want to associate with that,” John Coequyt,Sierra Club’s global climate policy director, said in an emailed statement. “Clint Woods made his choices, and his alliance with corporate polluters is clear.”}:

The hire came as a surprise to some at CFAES.

“The lack of communication through the school and the ambiguity in the statement in what even the job is concerns us a lot, considering his past,” said Brian Bush, a third-year environmental science major from Columbus who also is a member of the Ohio State Sierra Club Student Coalition. He said the organization plans to submit a statement to the dean.

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