"An astounding three quarters of litigators are failing to cite the most recent peer-reviewed findings in the climate change lawsuits."
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Press | Op-ed
Opinion: What Opioid Lawsuits Can Teach Us About Climate Courtroom Battles
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Researchers Hit With Lawsuits, Records Requests for Fact-Checking Climate ClaimsSeptember 21, 2022
“They make a point of going after the fact-checkers because, in addition to stopping regulation, they also want to prevent or discourage climate scientists from doing things that might educate the public" said Lauren Kurtz.
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Opinion: The Federal Government Alone Won’t Save Us from Climate ChangeAugust 1, 2022
Our staff attorney Rachael Lyle says “a problem on the scale of climate change can never be solved without sustained public demand for forward-thinking policies – and that demand starts at the grassroots level.”
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A Reckless Decision: How a Politicized American Supreme Court Derails Federal Agency Action on Climate ChangeJuly 12, 2022
To diminish the EPA’s ability to restrict emissions from power plants at a time when the world is being battered by floods, fires, and droughts, is nothing short of reckless.
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Has Biden followed the science? What researchers sayJanuary 21, 2022
"While this report does a good job of setting the stage, there is also a lot more that needs to be done to actually guarantee protections for federal science,” says Lauren Kurtz, executive director of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund.
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The Biden administration's first year: Slow and steady does not win this raceJanuary 20, 2022
We documented 328 anti-science actions taken by the Trump administration. Biden has only reversed or reconsidered nine of them.
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Why Joe Biden’s bid to restore scientific integrity mattersJanuary 17, 2022
Concerns about political interference have plagued many US administrations, says Lauren Kurtz, the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund’s executive director.
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White House plan aims to protect science from politicsJanuary 12, 2022
Lauren Kurtz thought the report downplayed some transgressions during the Trump years. She noted that EPA’s scientific integrity policy was used to defend unscientific claims like former Administrator Scott Pruitt’s statement that carbon dioxide was “not a primary contributor to global warming.”
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How to protect US science from political meddling after TrumpJanuary 12, 2022
“This is a situation where the devil is truly in the details, and the lack of specificity is frustrating,” says executive director Lauren Kurtz regarding the consequences for those who violate scientific integrity policies.
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Press | News
After Trump, US researchers urge Biden to block political meddling in scienceAugust 6, 2021
Our Silencing Science Tracker and staff attorney August Wilson quoted in this Nature article about getting the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to adopt much-needed, stronger protections for federal science.
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What You Know about Trump’s Assault on Science Was Just the Tip of the IcebergJuly 13, 2021
In this opinion piece in Scientific American, CSLDF director Lauren Kurtz and Dana Gold discuss the extent of political interference in science -- not just under the Trump admin -- and what to do about it.
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The Full Story: Tracking Climate Change And Extreme Weather/Update On Legislative SessionJune 22, 2021
This podcast episode features our co-founder and chair Scott Mandia, who speaks about the nature of hurricanes, the role of climate change in relation to extreme weather events and why the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund was created to protect the science community.