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Science Advocacy 101Learn More
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News | CSLDF Resources
CSLDF Files Comments on How to Improve Scientific Integrity FrameworkLearn More
On Monday, April 4, CSLDF filed comments in response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)’s…
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News | CSLDF Resources
Recent Data from Silencing Science Tracker Shows Dispiriting Trend of Attacks on ScienceLearn More
By Rachael Lyle, New data from the Silencing Science Tracker, a joint initiative of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund and…
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Expert Engagement in Climate LitigationLearn More
Climate litigation is increasingly gaining ground and becoming a legitimate way to hold the largest polluters accountable for climate change-related…
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News | Scientists' Stories
Perspectives of Scientists Who Become Targets: Jagadish ShuklaLearn More
This series profiles scientists who have been threatened with legal attacks or harassed by politically and ideologically motivated groups. What these researchers experienced,…
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News | Monthly Update
February 2022 Update: CSLDF Joins Forces to Improve Whistleblower Protections, New Attorney & New PublicationLearn More
CSLDF Joins 104 Organizations in Support of Whistleblower ProtectionsOn February 17, we joined 104 organizations in signing a letter to Senate Majority…
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Press | Report
Politics v. science: How President Trump's war on science impacted public health and environmental regulationLearn MoreDrawing on more than four years of tracker data-from Trump's election to Biden's inauguration-we show that the Trump presidency fundamentally changed how federal government agencies perform, use, and communicate scientific research.
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News | Monthly Update
January 2022 Update: Biden's First Year, CSLDF in Nature, Michael Gerrard joins our boardLearn More
Biden’s First Year: Where He Stands on Science Lauren Kurtz, our director, and Romany Webb, a Senior Fellow and Associate…
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Has Biden followed the science? What researchers sayLearn More"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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Press | Op-ed
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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