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    EPA adviser is promoting harmful ideas, scientists say

    by Susanne Rust and Tony Barboza, Los Angeles Times Mar 22, 2019 4 minutes

    The Trump administration's reliance on industry-funded environmental specialists is again coming under fire, this time by researchers who say that Louis Anthony "Tony" Cox Jr., who leads a key Environmental Protection Agency advisory board on air pollution, is a "fringe" scientist and ideologue pushing policies detrimental to public health.

    In a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, two air pollution scientists say that Cox is ignoring consensus viewpoints on the effects of smog and particulate pollution.

    The scientists, Gretchen Goldman of the Union of Concerned Scientists and Francesca Dominici of Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, suggest that Cox risks upending "the time-tested and scientifically backed" process that has led to nationwide improvements in air quality and better protection

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