EPA's Science Purge

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🗓️ 3 November 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Since taking over as administrator of the EPA, Scott Pruitt's meeting calendar has been filled almost exclusively with industry interests.

Now he's opening the door even wider for industry.

On Tuesday, the Administrator issued a new decree: any scientist getting funding from the EPA will no longer be allowed to serve on the agency's scientific advisory board. He's replacing scientists with representatives from the chemical, fossil fuel and utility industries.

The scientific community is up in arms, saying there is already a very detailed process for ensuring scientific integrity and avoiding conflicts. Former EPA officials who served in the Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush administrations are criticizing the move as a way to stifle independent science.

This week, we'll discuss the latest in Pruitt's campaign to unravel the EPA.

Then, European utilities are scooping up American distributed energy companies at a record pace. We'll talk about Enel's acquisition of Enernoc, eMoterWerks, Demand Energy and a range of other distributed energy players. Is it sustainable?

We'll end with a conversation about the latest developments in the ongoing solar trade case. Is the sky falling yet? MJ Shiao, head of Americas research at GTM, talks through the different penalties on imports proposed by international trade commissioners.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, a quick word before we begin the show. Next week, GTM is holding its power and renewables
0:06.2	summit in Austin, Texas. Ever since we were acquired by Wood Mackenzie, our research and editorial
0:12.1	team has had access to a waterfall of global
0:14.4	data on power markets.
0:16.2	And we've taken our expertise on solar, storage, and grid modernization and combined it with all that
0:21.2	new data.
0:22.2	And the result is a slew of new insight
0:24.2	into how distributed energy fits into power markets
0:26.9	all over the US and the world.
0:28.7	And we're presenting those insights
0:30.4	at our Power and Renewable Summit
0:32.3	alongside a bunch of panels with industry experts.
0:35.6	Per usual, we've got heavy hitters from international utilities, leading energy companies and
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