CASAC PM Review Panel Exerts Powerful Influence
The Clean Air Act requires EPA to establish an “independent scientific review committee” comprised of seven members to review the Criteria Document. This committee is known as the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, or CASAC.
The Clean Air Act specifies that CASAC must include at least one member of the National Academy of Sciences, one physician, and one person representing State air pollution control agencies.
In additon to the CASAC members, EPA appoints additional consultants to serve on review panels for each air pollutant.
Unfortunately, the CASAC review panels are frequently heavily weighted with industry representatives. Expertise of individual panel members ranges from atmospheric processes, to air quality monitoring, to toxicology.
The CASAC panel must “reach closure” on the adequacy of the Criteria Document and Staff Paper before EPA can proceed to publish a regulatory proposal. Thus the panel has enormous influence on EPA’s standard-setting process.
Requests to testify at CASAC meetings, or to distribute infomation to CASAC members, may be sent to the responsible EPA staff person:
Fred Butterfield, Designated Federal Officer
Science Advisory Board (1400A)
U.S. EPA
1025 F St. NW 3rd Floor
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: 202-343-9994
Email: butterfield.fred@epa.gov.
Members of the CASAC include:
Rogene F. Henderson, Ph.D., Chair
Director, Lovelace Respiratory Symposium
Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute
Albuquerque, NM
Email: rhenders@lrri.org
Philip Hopke, Ph.D., Former Chair
Robert A. Plane Professor
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Clarkson University
Potsdam, NY
Email: hopkepk@clarkson.edu
Richard L. Poirot
Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation
Waterbury, VT
Email: richpo@dec.anr.state.vt.us
Frederick J. Miller, Ph.D.
Director
Respiratory and Neurotoxicology Research Program
Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology
Research Triangle Park, NC
Email: fmiller@ciit.org
Ellis Cowling, Ph.D.
Professor,
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
Email: ellis_cowling@ncsu.edu
James D. Crapo, M.D.
National Jewish Medical & Research Center
Denver, CO
Email: crapoj@njc.org
Barbara Zielinska, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Desert Research Institute
Reno, NV
Email: barbz@dri.edu
Frank Speizer, M.D.
Edward Kass Professor of Medicine
Channing Laboratory
Harvard University
Boston, MA
Email: frank.speizer@channing.harvard.edu
Additional members of the CASAC PM Panel include:
Jane Koenig, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Environmental Health
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Email: jkoenig@u.washington.edu
Petros Koutrakis, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences
School of Public Health
Harvard University
Boston, MA
Email: petros@hsph.harvard.edu
Allan Legge, Ph.D.
President
Biosphere Solutions
Calgary Alberta CANADA
Email: allan.legge@shaw.ca
Paul Lioy, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
Exposure Measurement and Assessment Division
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Piscataway, NJ
Email: plioy@eohsi.rutgers.edu
Morton Lippmann, Ph.D.
Professor
Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine
New York University Medical Center
Tuxedo, NY
Email: lippmann@env.med.nyu.edu
Joe Mauderly, D.V.M.
Vice President, Senior Scientist & Director
National Environmental Respiratory Center
Lovelace Respiraotry Research Institute
Albuquerque, NM
Email: jmauderl@lrri.org
Roger O. McClellan, D.V.M.
Consultant
Albuquerque, NM
Email: roger.o.mcclellan@worldnet.att.net
Gunter Oberdorster, Ph.D.
Professor of Toxicology
Department of Environmental Medicine
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
Email: gunter_oberdorster@urmc.rochester.edu
Robert D. Rowe, Ph.D.
CEO
Stratus Consulting, Inc.
Boulder, CO
Email: browe@stratusconsulting.com
Jonathan M. Samet, M.D.
Professor & Chair
Department of Epidemiology
School of Hygiene and Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
Email: jsamet@jhsph.edu
Sverre Vedal, M.D.
University of Washington School of Public Health
Seattle, WA
Email: svedal@u.washington.edu
Ronald White
Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD
Email: rwhite@jhsph.edu
Warren H. White, Ph.D.
Crocker Nuclear Lab
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA
Email: white@crocker.UCDavis.edu
George T. Wolfe, Ph.D.
Principal Scientist
General Motors Corporation
Detroit, MI
Email george.wolff@gm.com
