GAO: EPA management issues undercut science

Management issues continue to plague the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which has yet to implement fully recommendations made over the last two decades to improve the “uneven quality” of the science that underpins its regulations , according to new testimony from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

“EPA has yet to fully address” a 1992 evaluation reporting “that EPA’s science was of uneven quality and that the agency lacked a coherent science agenda and operational plan to guide scientific efforts throughout the agency,” GAO’s Natural Resources and Environment director, David Trimble, told the House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment today.