“The White House has mounted a broad attack on climate science, repeatedly proposing cuts to NASA’s earth science budget, including the Carbon Monitoring System, and cancellations of climate missions such as the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3 (OCO-3).” More …
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Two Leading Bidders for Lucrative Los Alamos Lab Contract Have Checkered Safety Records
“Defense contractor Bechtel and the University of California are in the running even though they have run the lab as partners for the last decade and amassed a record of worker health and safety violations.” More ….
Scott Pruitt ousted EPA science advisers. Now he’s going after the science itself.
“Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt signed a new directive aimed at increasing transparency in science. The announcement poses a fundamental challenge to the agency’s work as a regulator by instituting new restrictions on the scientific findings used by the EPA.” More …
Engulfed in Opioid Deaths, Ohio Turns to Science
“State attempts to accelerate high-tech solutions after treatment and law enforcement fail to stem overdose fatalities.” More …
Our Federal Science Agencies Are in Mortal Danger
“Whether by strategy or ineptitude or both, the Trump administration is starving them of the expertise they need to fulfill their essential functions.” More …
Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Is The Latest Front In The War On Science
“A few weeks ago, the Trump Administration suddenly killed a modest federal program, the Teenage Pregnancy Prevention program. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) summarily ended grants to hospitals, schools, and community groups after only three years of work, leaving service delivery and evaluation efforts in limbo.” More …
How Trump Has Made the Department of Health and Human Services a Center of False Science on Contraception
“Contraception policy may not be the biggest target of the anti-science right wing — climate change and evolution probably rank higher — but it’s the field in which scientific disinformation has the most immediate consequences for public health. So it’s especially disturbing that Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price have stocked the corridors of health policy with purveyors of conclusively debunked claptrap about contraception, abortion, pregnancy and women’s reproductive health generally.” More …
Trump’s Budget: Making America Less Great
“Drastic cuts proposed by the administration threaten scientific R&D that provides incredible economic and societal value, and which have always enjoyed bipartisan support.” More …
Trump Officials Act to Tilt Federal Science Boards toward Industry
“New changes to EPA, Interior Department advisory groups could restrict or paralyze them, critics say.” More…