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“I think that’s a missed opportunity,” says Lauren Kurtz, executive director of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, an advocacy group based in New York City.

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.

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.

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.

Things are improving, but there’s still a lot President Biden can do to restore the role of science in federal policy. 

Josh Wolfe, a CSLDF co-founder, describes the attacks experienced by NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt.

To prevent future political interference in science, agencies must build a lasting culture of scientific integrity, writes CSLDF's Augusta Wilson.

Biden's memo on scientific integrity makes big strides toward addressing censorship but doesn't look at other issues, like retaliation, said CSLDF's Lauren Kurtz.

“I don’t think these ideas are going anywhere, and I do think it is highly likely that attempts by industry-friendly lawmakers to undermine science will continue,” said CSLDF attorney Augusta Wilson.