EPA science ‘overburdened by Congress’

Abstract

Scientific research at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) consists of "a discontinuous series of broad, shallow efforts" according to an assessment commissioned by the EPA's research office. This is blamed on a combination of overreaching congressional mandates and short-lived efforts at reform by the agency's political leadership. The report was prepared by Resources for the Future, an independent think-tank, in an attempt to explain the often-cited shortcomings in EPA's scientific programme. Almost since its foundation in 1973, critics have charged that the regulatory agency does not do the high-quality research needed to frame its regulations. Mark Powell, the study's author, says that C. M. Clinton gets the message on biomass energy Mass observation: studying trees for 'coppicing'.

Improving the selectivity of hydrogenation and hydrodeoxygenation for vanillin by using vacancy-coupled Ru–N3 single atoms immobilized on defective boron nitride

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