More EPA Sabotage Of Climate Fight

EPA staffers get talking points playing down human role in climate change

Brady Dennis and Juliet Eilperin, March 28, 2018 (Washington Post)

“Environmental Protection Agency staffers received a list of ‘talking points’ this week instructing them to underscore the uncertainties about how human activity contributes to climate change…A career employee in the department’s Office of Public Affairs distributed the eight talking points to regional staffers. The list offered suggestions on ways to talk with local communities and Native American tribes about how to adapt to extreme weather, rising seas and other environmental challenges…[The points were based on] controversial — and scientifically unsound — statements that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has made about the current state of climate research…[They raise doubts about the precision of climate scientists’ measurements and led Michael Halpern, deputy director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, to observe that] EPA wants a political filter on all scientific information emerging from the government, especially if it has to do with climate change…” click here for more

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