EPA accused of urging staff to downplay climate change after memo leaks

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Scientists say an internal Environmental Protection Agency document encourages the use of misleading statements about scientific certainty

Oliver Milman in New York

Thu 29 Mar 2018 13.03 EDT
First published on Thu 29 Mar 2018 12.22 EDT

Scientists have accused the US Environmental Protection Agency of distributing misleading statements about climate change, following the leaking of an internal email advising agency staff to downplay the certainty of the science.

The email, sent to EPA communications staff by Joel Scheraga, senior climate adaptation adviser to the agency administrator, Scott Pruitt, acknowledges that communities face “challenges” in dealing with the consequences of climate change.

However, the email, obtained by HuffPost, also sets out ambiguous talking points favoured by Pruitt, such as: “Human activity impacts our changing climate in some manner. The ability to measure with precision the degree and extent of that impact, and what to do about it, are subject to continuing debate and dialogue.”

The email adds that “while there has been extensive research and a host of published reports on climate change, clear gaps remain including our understanding of the role of human activity and what we can do about it”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/29/epa-climate-change-memo-downplay-scientists

[BigmanPigman]

1. Research and transparency have been stopped by the moron

since he took office. Scientists and researchers aren't allowed to share any of their info publicly and research has been cut enormously. This applies to Climate Change too. We have to rely on our foreign allies to continue to do and share their research. It will take us 20 years to undo the harm on so many levels and in so many areas of this admin. of greedy, money lovers and hypocritical, morality haters.

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2. Rotten Ronnie

We're still suffering ripple effects from the time of rotten Ronnie, too. We've sputtered along like an engine with half its cylinders blown ever since then, with just a few times running smoothly. The current GOP is the worst I've ever seen. They hide behind TrumPutin's news noise and feed their owners.

Millenials have yet to see what this country can do when government tries to work for all the governed instead of for the 1%.

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3. Not just millennials...I'd like to see it too for a

continuous period of time, like about 20 years. I turned 18 in 1980 and voted for Carter. All I have seen in my life is corrupt, greedy hypocrisy from the GOP Christians my entire adult life