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A new Brookings analysis details how the Trump administration has halted or manipulated data on food programs, public health, weather forecasting, hurricane tracking, monetary policy, the economy and the effectiveness of government programs. On global warming, Trump is erasing scientific data and removing the capacity to collect it in a campaign of “climate erasure.”
Trump has also sabotaged science, dismissing scientists whose specialties he doesn’t consider important and conclusions he doesn’t like. His administration has fired thousands of scientists and subject-matter experts from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Health and Human Services and other agencies. As investigative journalist Lois Parshley points out, “The Trump administration’s assault on science feels eerily Soviet.”
In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that greenhouse gas emissions are linked to global warming and that the EPA had the authority to regulate them. It also ruled that regulations must be based on sound science. Two years later, the EPA issued an “endangerment finding” that explained the scientific basis for concluding that global warming threatens public health and welfare. Now, Trump’s EPA intends to revoke the finding so that fossil-fuel companies can emit pollution without constraints.
Does any of this sound like its will make America great at all? No, I don’t think so.
Trump has also sabotaged science, dismissing scientists whose specialties he doesn’t consider important and conclusions he doesn’t like. His administration has fired thousands of scientists and subject-matter experts from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Health and Human Services and other agencies. As investigative journalist Lois Parshley points out, “The Trump administration’s assault on science feels eerily Soviet.”
In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that greenhouse gas emissions are linked to global warming and that the EPA had the authority to regulate them. It also ruled that regulations must be based on sound science. Two years later, the EPA issued an “endangerment finding” that explained the scientific basis for concluding that global warming threatens public health and welfare. Now, Trump’s EPA intends to revoke the finding so that fossil-fuel companies can emit pollution without constraints.
Does any of this sound like its will make America great at all? No, I don’t think so.
