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Perspectives of Scientists Who Become Targets: Jagadish Shukla
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News | Monthly Update
February 2022 Update: CSLDF Joins Forces to Improve Whistleblower Protections, New Attorney & New PublicationFebruary 28, 2022 CSLDF
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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News | Monthly Update
January 2022 Update: Biden's First Year, CSLDF in Nature, Michael Gerrard joins our boardJanuary 21, 2022 CSLDF
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 sayJanuary 21, 2022 Nature
"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 raceJanuary 20, 2022 The Hill
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 Nature
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 E&E News
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 Nature
“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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New Biden Administration Report on Protections for Federal ScienceJanuary 12, 2022 CSLDF
Yesterday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a long-awaited report on improving protections for federal science.…
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News | CSLDF Resources
2021: Our Year in ReviewDecember 23, 2021 CSLDF
As we head into a third year of the global pandemic, with a concerning new Covid-19 variant on the rise,…
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