The fact of not finishing the revision process would leave the vulnerable EPA to the affirmations according to which it is based on a project of incomplete report for its scientific justifications. Thus, although DOE tactics can protect some of his internal documents, he can ultimately cause greater problems at the Trump administration agenda.
Attack academies
Earlier this year, we criticized the National Academies of American Sciences for having apparently refused to respond to attacks by the Trump administration against science. This reluctance seemed to end in August with the publication of DOE Climate Report and announces that the EPA used this report as the last word on climate science, which, according to him, had changed considerably since the initial EPA decisions on this issue in 2009.
In response, national academies have announced that it would accelerate a new analysis of the risks posed by greenhouse gases, it is made by traditional scientists instead of a handful of marginal figures. The objective was to do so before the EPA closes its period of public comments on its proposal to ignore greenhouse gases.
Obviously, this constitutes a threat to the planned actions of EPA, which apparently prompted the Republicans to the Congress to intervene. Earlier this month, chairman of the Chamber Committee on surveillance and government reform, representative James Comer (R-KY.), Announced that he was investigating national academies to prepare for this report, appealing to “a flagrant partisan law to subscribe to the Trump administration”.
Commer also sent a letter to the national academies, describing its concerns and demanding a variety of documents. Some of them are quite convoluted: “The study is led by a member of the national academies which serves as an external advisor to the science Philanthropy Alliance, which has links with the group of the left Arabella advisers through the new venture capital fund, an organization which promotes a variety of progressive causes and funds in terms of climate dispute, says Comer, This is a major climate dispute.
