Michael Hiltzik: A devastating report details a 'monumental' assault on science at the Department of the Interior
Among the up-is-down, night-is-day practices of the Trump administration, one of the most dangerous and disturbing is its habit of turning America's leading science agencies into hives of anti-science policymaking.
A new report lays out how this has produced a "monumental disaster" for science at the Department of the Interior. The report by the Union of Concerned Scientists details how Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and his minions have in the space of two years turned Interior from a steward of public lands and natural resources into a front for the mining and oil and gas industries.
"The intent in rolling back the consideration of science in decision-making is always to progress the development of fossil fuel interests," Jacob Carter of the union's center for science and
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