EPA's Science Advisory Board Has Not Met in 6 Months (scientificamerican.com)

The U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board has not met in at least six months, and some of its members say it's being sidelined to avoid getting in the way of agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's anti-regulatory agenda, Scientific American reported this week. From the report: Agency officials say the lapse isn't intentional and that it's just the result of delayed paperwork. That has prevented the group from meeting because there weren't enough members to make a quorum. The board, which typically has about 45 members, is tasked by Congress to evaluate the science used by EPA to craft policy. The full board has not met since August, nor has it had any conference calls or votes. In the past, members would have had multiple interactions during that time period, said William Schlesinger, a board member who is an emeritus professor of biogeochemistry at Duke University. "I guess the Science Advisory Board still exists; I guess I'm still on it," he said. "I think the answer is maybe they're giving it what we used to call the 'pocket veto': If you don't meet, then the scientists are not a pain, because they don't have a forum."

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Re:Donald Trump is a pure traitor.

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This is not governance in any political affiliation. This is treason and abdication of duty. Prison can't come soon enough for these fools.

Treason has a specific constitutionally defined meaning. I think you are trying way to hard to make Trump's actions meet that definition.

Prison time usually requires the commission of a crime. At this point, we have no direct evidence Trump committed any crimes here. We have a lot of theories about possible crimes being investigated, but being investigated isn't evidence of a crime. No crimes are in evidence and Treason isn't really possible at this point so I think you are rattling on about nothing but wild conspiracy theories for now..

Can we at least wait until the evidence comes out before we make wildly unlikely charges like Treason?

No? Ok.. Then stay with the partisan political craziness that drives all this pointless wrangling...