"EPA is disbanding two of its federal advisory committees as a result of President Trump's executive order targeting the boards.
The agency has recommended the Environmental Laboratory Advisory Board, or ELAB, and the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology, or NACEPT, be terminated to comply with Trump's order issued last June that required agencies to dissolve at least one-third of their advisory committees. Members of both panels were notified by EPA last week that their committees would no longer exist, according to agency emails obtained by E&E News.
"After conducting a thorough review with senior leadership of its 22 committees, the Agency recommended and the Office of Management & Budget (OMB) approved that the EPA not retain ELAB," said the email sent last Thursday to the committee's members."
