"Climate change preparation would no longer be a guiding EPA research objective under a proposed long-term plan that an agency advisory panel is set to discuss this week.
EPA's draft plan, which would set its air pollution research priorities for the period from fiscal 2019 through 2022, highlights the Trump administration's previously announced emphasis on bringing all of the United States into compliance with existing ambient air quality standards and stresses the need to reduce the "environmental public health burden" posed by wildfires.
But the proposed blueprint would drop the Obama administration's decision to deem addressing "changes in climate and air quality" a central research objective. The EPA advisory panel, known as the Board of Scientific Counselors Air and Energy Subcommittee, will take up the draft plan at a meeting scheduled to start tomorrow at the agency's complex in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park and last through most of Wednesday."
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