(Reuters) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) named a scientific ombudsman on Monday to fight back against accusations by Republican lawmakers of being opaque in its scientific findings and not allowing outside parties to review them.
The agency tapped Francesca Grifo to be its first "scientific integrity official."
Grifo is formerly the director of the scientific integrity program at the Union of Concerned Scientists and a director of the Center for Environmental Research at Columbia University.
She will be given the task of coordinating the agency's policies on scientific integrity and chairing a committee devoted to the subject.
"Science is, and continues to be, the backbone of this agency and the integrity of our science is central to the identity and credibility of our work," EPA administrator Gina McCarthy said in a statement.
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