The US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's Ranking Minority Member strongly criticized Environmental Protection
Agency Administrator E. Scott Pruitt's plans to adopt a «back to basics» process for reviewing the federal Clean Air Act's National Ambient Air Quality Standards.
The new telescope is named after NASA's second
administrator, James
E. Webb, who oversaw the space
agency from the beginnings of the Mercury program through the beginnings of the Apollo program in the 1960s.