Sabotaged Science in the Arctic Refuge: Interior Department Works to Undermine Its Own Scientists

It's been a long, tough road for scientists during the Trump administration—particularly those at the sprawling Department of the Interior. Interior scientists have been reassigned and marginalized by political appointees, their results have been suppressed, their funding has been choked off, and their programs have been threatened with closure or relocation. Those who remain on the job are keeping their heads down for fear of retaliation, diligently continuing to do whatever research is still permitted, and avoiding publicizing results that may draw fire from the Secretary's meddling hallway.

Sabotaging science

Unfortunately it's no longer just the scientific findings that the Trump administration is trying to sabotage. They’re now going after the very methods that scientists have depended upon for many decades to understand and accurately predict change.

This is not a new tactic. Climate deniers have long tried to demonize scientific models as false and misleading....