"They're using different words. Extreme weather instead of climate change, for example, which isn't a politically charged word. And they're starting to archive their research results out of government hands."
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Trump official who tried to downplay major climate report now will oversee itMarch 4, 2025 E&E News | Politico
A former Trump official who alarmed scientists years ago when he attempted to meddle with a congressionally mandated climate report has returned to the White House in a role that’s expected to heavily influence the next version of the assessment.
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'Trump and Musk are plunging American science into indescribable chaos'March 3, 2025 Le Monde
This digital coup also, and above all, enables a tight control of power over the conduct of science and the production of knowledge, which is nothing like what the first Trump administration (2017-2021) had implemented.
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February update: Giving up is not an optionFebruary 27, 2025 CSLDF
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'Trump supporters are already at work against scientific integrity policies'February 20, 2025 Le Monde
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Trump's fight against scienceFebruary 17, 2025 Tagesschau
"Of course, we haven't yet seen the full extent of what they have in store," says Kurtz. At the moment, however, one can observe how attempts to fire researchers are already being made "much more aggressively."
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CSLDF Supports Protecting Higher Education RecordsFebruary 7, 2025 CSLDF
Newly returned President Trump has swamped the recent news cycle with numerous anti-science actions undertaken within the federal government. (For…
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Inside the race to archive the US government’s websitesFebruary 7, 2025 MIT Technology Review
“These are irreplaceable repositories of important climate information,” says Lauren Kurtz, CSLDF executive director. “So fiddling with them or deleting them means the irreplaceable loss of critical information. It’s really quite tragic.”
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January update: He's back.January 30, 2025 CSLDF
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How Trump Muzzled ScienceJanuary 24, 2025 The Meta News
"While previous presidents have consistently defended scientific research, at least publicly, the Trump administration has repeatedly called it into question."
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