Researchers from Columbia University and the nonprofit Climate Science Legal Defense Fund report that Trump’s effort to undermine scientific research included 154 documented cases of federal government censorship of scientists. That’s horrifying, and we can’t let it happen again.
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Conspiracies and cynical indifference are the right’s latest climate strategyLearn More -
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Michael Mann beat his defamers. But climate scientists are still under attack.Learn MoreFrom the front lines, we can say that attacks on science and scientists have been growing in number and intensity since our founding 13 years ago.
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Why the CT public record system needs to be overhauledLearn MoreIn the face of growing calls for immediate climate action after the world’s hottest summer on record, fossil fuel-funded interests are intensifying efforts to undercut climate research and policies.
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The IPCC’s latest report is downright grim - Yet climate scientists are still being silencedLearn MoreRecently, invasive open records requests, defamation lawsuits, and other misuses of the legal system threaten climate scientists’ ability to freely conduct research and openly share it with the public.
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How Scientists Can Safeguard Themselves OnlineLearn More"Hacking is the most invasive risk, but it’s not the only way that scientists’ data, research, and emails may be released publicly. My colleagues and I have seen scientists targeted with legal methods, most notably by groups and individuals using open records laws to seek thousands of emails."
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Opinion: What Opioid Lawsuits Can Teach Us About Climate Courtroom BattlesLearn More"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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Opinion: The Federal Government Alone Won’t Save Us from Climate ChangeLearn MoreOur 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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The Biden administration's first year: Slow and steady does not win this raceLearn MoreWe documented 328 anti-science actions taken by the Trump administration. Biden has only reversed or reconsidered nine of them.
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What You Know about Trump’s Assault on Science Was Just the Tip of the IcebergLearn MoreIn 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.