[BSW] Native Plant Conservation Campaign News: Trump administration’s rejection of science continues

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Native Plant Conservation Campaign News: Trump administration’s rejection of
science continues

December 4, 2017

 
For ideas on some ways you can get involved and help defend science visit
the NPCC Speak Out for Plants Page

 
Recent examples of the Trump administration's ongoing resistance to
scientists and science include:

  *  National Science Foundation grants using the words climate change are
     down about 40% this year, according to a National Public Radio analysis.

According to the November 29, 2017 report, the change in language may be the
result of the Trump administration's open hostility to the topic of climate
change –

“Earlier this year, Mr. Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate
accord, and the President's 2018 budget proposal singled out climate change
research programs for elimination.

Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency has been systematically
removing references to climate change from its official website. Both the
EPA's leader, Scott Pruitt, and Secretary of Energy Rick Perry have said
they do not accept the scientific consensus that humans are causing the
planet to get warmer.”

Further, in August, the Guardian UK reported on a series of e mails within
the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service
discouraging federal staff from using the phrase “climate change” at al. 

Read the new analysis at NPR

  *  The Ecological Society of America reports that the Trump administration
     has prohibited agency scientists from making public presentations on
     impacts of climate change on coastal areas and western wildfires.

 “’Stifling ecologists who have valid research to inform management
decisions … is unconscionable and serves no one,’ said Katherine McCarter,
executive director, Ecological Society of America.” In a statement in
response to one censorship incident.


Read more at  the Ecological Society of America Policy News

Read the Ecological Society of America’s full Statement on recent science
censorship

  *  EPA Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) experts dismissed

The Environmental Protection Agency established the Board of Scientific
Counselors (BOSC) in 1996 to provide high quality technical advice,
information, and recommendations to the agency on clean air, toxics, and
water science. Since January, the Trump administration has dismissed dozens
of scientists - and appointed representatives from polluting industries in
their stead.

 

According to Ecological Society of America Policy News, the BOSC had 68
members early in the year, but by late June it was down to 11. Following the
BOSC dismissals, the EPA cancelled all remaining meetings of the committee
for 2017.


Among the new appointments to the EPA advisory committees, announced on Nov.
3, are representatives of Phillips 66 Co., Southern Co., and the North
Dakota Petroleum Council.

For more details, see November 9 ESA Policy News

  *  On November 7, Syria followed the lead of Nicaragua and signed the Paris
     Agreement on Climate Change. This leaves the U.S. as the sole country
     that has rejected the global science-based climate pact.

Read more in the New York Times


For ideas on how you can help defend plants and science visit the

NPCC Speak Out for Plants Page


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Emily Brin Roberson, Ph.D.

Director

Native Plant Conservation Campaign

emilyr at plantsocieties.org

www.plantsocieties.org 

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