• Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), stands for a photograph after an interview in his office at the EPA headquarters in Washington Oct. 25. Pruitt vowed that he will get tough on corporate polluters, dismissing critics who cast him as too cozy with industry. | BLOOMBERG
    Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), stands for a photograph after an interview in his office at the EPA headquarters in Washington Oct. 25. Pruitt vowed that he will get tough on corporate polluters, dismissing critics who cast him as too cozy with industry. | BLOOMBERG

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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Tuesday it will bar certain scientists from serving on its independent advisory boards, a move critics say could open the way to more industry-friendly advisers on the panels.

The EPA barred scientists who have won agency-awarded grants in the past, billing the step as a way to preserve the independence and diversity of the boards, which provide the scientific input for agency decisions around pollution and climate change regulation.

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