Federal Researchers Are Worried Scott Pruitts EPA is Preparing to Destroy an Upcoming Climate Report. The researchers behind an upcoming 6. Scott Pruitt, the new Environmental Protection Agency chief who made his national name attacking the EPA, is posed to destroy it. According to Nature, the scientific report is a precursor to the legally mandated fourth National Climate Assessment in 2. It is all but finished except for final sign off by 1. Pruitts EPA, and Pruitt has proposed requiring future climate research pass a red team, blue team panel. The red part of any such panel would include dissenting voicesand the pool of dissenting scientists is in large part funded by climate change stoking industries like coal mining and fossil fuel extraction. According to Nature, Pruitt appears to be making preparations to move forward with the red team, blue team panel idea, and documents forwarded by an EPA official show he has consulted with the Heartland Institute, a fossil fuel lobbying group, on who to put on the red side. Pruitt slashed half of the scientists from the EPAs board of scientific counselors this year, opening the way for fossil fuel lobbyists and paid flacks to muscle their way in. Even without naked interference from Pruitt or other federal officials, Trump has left major vacancies at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, which coordinates climate reports. The OSTPs entire science division had no employees left as of July 1, and its staffing in general plummeted from 1. Barack Obama to just 3. July. We cant allow science to be held hostage, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign climate researcher and report co author Donald Wuebbles told Nature. Im hopeful it wont get to that, because it would look really bad for the administration to fight this. Pruitt has no formal scientific qualifications. Before being appointed head of the EPA, he was best known for repeatedly suing the agency in his role as Oklahomas attorney general. Trump himself has repeatedly referred to climate change as a Chinese hoax, and on dozens of occasions has tweeted that cold weather disproves climate science. He also has a penchant for not really caring about the consequences of warring with the judiciary, so he will probably not care all that much about interfering with the legally mandated 2. Microsoft Team Foundation Server Licensing Agency' title='Microsoft Team Foundation Server Licensing Agency' />About IABScott Schiller serves as Executive Vice PresidentGeneral Manager of Advertising Sales, Marketing, within NBCUniversals Advertising Sales and Client Partnerships Division. 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