"Prohibiting people from speaking out about climate change, pressuring people not to study climate change, or terminating programs on climate—it's been a very holistic approach to silencing science," said Lauren Kurtz, executive director of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund.
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Top CDC Health and Climate Scientist Files Whistleblower Complaint
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Climate Expert at CDC Poised to File Whistleblower Complaint over TreatmentAugust 15, 2019
Lauren Kurtz, executive director of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund in New York City, said what is happening at the CDC is part of a larger trend of Trump officials telling scientists and nonscientists that they shouldn’t refer to climate change.
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War on Science: Trump Administration Muzzles Climate Experts, Critics SayJuly 26, 2019
Lauren Kurtz – who is tracking evidence of censorship for a database by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Climate Science Legal Defense Fund – said it extends beyond the climate crisis, to pesticide safety and reproductive health.
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Court Forces University of Arizona to Release Climate Scientists’ Traditionally Confidential EmailsJune 5, 2019
The nonprofit Climate Science Legal Defense Fund was created seven years ago to help climate scientists fight back against politically-motivated and industry-funded harassment, and has been heavily involved in the Arizona open records case.
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California is Fighting Over the Future of Freedom of Information LawsApril 27, 2019
“You can imagine if you handed out 38,000 of your emails to people who openly disputed the validity of your work, they might be able to find a phrase or two that they could use to make you look bad, so there were some real concerns about doing that,” says Lauren Kurtz, executive director of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, referring to Michael Mann’s experience.
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Science, Civil Rights, Public Health and Good Government Groups Rally Behind Scientific Integrity LegislationMarch 15, 2019
The Scientific Integrity Act is an important step forward for safeguarding scientific integrity at federal agencies, and it improves the legal options available for federal scientists who are facing increasing levels of censorship, research hindrances, and misrepresentation of established facts.
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Congress Can Stop the War on ScienceJanuary 16, 2019
It is essential that Congress exercise their immense powers to protect scientific research by supporting scientists and challenging anti-science efforts by the Trump administration.
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Women Climate Scientists Threatened and HarassedSeptember 21, 2018
I will say that my experience is that people who reject climate science a non-zero amount of time often overlap with people who are also raging misogynists.
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The Trump Administration Is Suppressing Science at an Alarming RateAugust 23, 2018
The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CSLDF) in conjunction with Columbia’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law has been tracking the ways in which scientific information is being removed from reports and public websites, in addition to how scientists themselves are being sidelined.
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'Ugly Fake Scientist.' Women Say Sexist Attacks on the RiseAugust 21, 2018
The fund's executive director, Lauren Kurtz, said laws addressing online harassment are "behind the times." They tend to focus on bullying of children, not adult victims.
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He Sues to Discredit Climate Scientists. Now He’s Being Sued by His Allies.July 11, 2018
Lauren Kurtz, executive director of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, said that while the conservative groups had pursued researchers’ emails in the name of transparency, there had been “complete lack of transparency in how they were running their own organization.”
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Losing Justice Kennedy Puts Fundamental Environmental Protections in PerilJune 28, 2018
Justice Kennedy’s replacement will influence how we protect our air and water, as well as how we respond to climate change, for generations to come.