How Science Can Survive Hostile Governments
Scientists have a history of using political attacks to galvanize support for reform.
Though much of the Trump administration’s policy agenda has been hobbled by chaos and scandal, Scott Pruitt’s Environmental Protection Agency has been remarkably productive. Under Pruitt’s leadership, the agency has limited communication between its staffers and the public—even its own climate-change website—and undertaken a regulatory rollback of historic proportions. According to a recent in the , Pruitt has relied on the advice of industry lobbyists and political allies; several of his decisions have ignored previous agency findings on climate, water quality, and
