J.R. DeShazo in Parentology: How Cuts to EPA Funding Could Impact Children

“EPA’s latest cuts to children’s health research are part of a pattern that could diminish the importance of science in decisions that affect the well-being of American families,” J.R. DeShazo, director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation and co-chair of the External Environmental Economics Committee, tells Parentology. “This organization, comprised of some of the nation’s top economists, was convened after the EPA recently dissolved the original committee that advised the agency on social costs and benefits of its policies.”