From Politico E&E News:

More than a quarter of the candidates for an expert and influential EPA panel were pushed by the executive director of a nonprofit group that downplays the dangers of heat-trapping carbon dioxide.

Should agency Administrator Lee Zeldin choose any of the active nominees advanced by the CO2 Coalition to serve on the seven-member Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, they could prove key to his goal of rolling back the stronger soot exposure standard put in place last year that would, it’s predicted, eventually save thousands of lives.

The roster of the coalition’s nominees includes James Enstrom, a former University of California at Los Angeles epidemiologist who in 2023 opposed any tightening of what was then a yearly soot standard of 12 micrograms per cubic meter of air and had previously accused EPA under President Joe Biden of promoting “anti-American pseudoscience.”

Also on the list is Stanley Young, a Ph.D. statistician who disputes the ample documentation linking long-term soot exposure to higher odds of some types of heart attacks, strokes and early death.

The complete Politico &E News article can be accessed here (please note it is paywalled):

https://www.eenews.net/articles/pro-fossil-fuel-group-presses-for-spots-on-epa-expert-panel/