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News | Court Decisions
The Importance of Good Email PracticeLearn More
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How the Trump Administration is Undermining Climate Science and ScientistsLearn More
Donald Trump’s presidency has climate scientists concerned about the implications for U.S. environmental policies, the worldwide effort to curb the…
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News | Amicus Briefs
New Allegations Against NOAA Scientists — And Why They're IncorrectLearn More
Judicial Watch, a conservative group, has used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to sue for the privileged email correspondence…
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News | Amicus Briefs
CSLDF Files Brief to Protect NOAA Climate ScientistsLearn More
In partnership with the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), we filed an amicus brief urging the court to safeguard research.
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Press | Press Release
Amicus Groups File Brief to Protect Climate Scientists
The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund has asked the District of Columbia federal District Court to safeguard roughly 8,000 pages of privileged correspondence between nine climate scientists.
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News | CSLDF Resources
A Pocket Guide for ScientistsLearn More
On the eve of the presidential inauguration, there is serious concern about how the new administration’s agenda could affect climate…
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CSLDF Adds Two New Board MembersLearn More
As the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund prepares for the new challenges that face scientists in 2017, we are excited…
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Trump Adds Lawyers with History of Harassing Climate Scientists to Transition TeamLearn More
“For years, David Schnare, with funding from polluting interests, has hounded me and other climate scientists, abusing open records laws…
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Press | News
Why Scientists Are Scared of Trump: A Pocket GuideLearn MoreThe guide is the creation of a group called the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund. One of the group's founders, Joshua Wolfe, and its executive director, Lauren Kurtz, made the decision to write it on the day after the election. "There is a lot of fear among scientists that they will become targets of people who are interested in science as politics, rather than progress," Wolfe told me in an e-mail.
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CSLDF in the Guardian: Climate scientists are under attack from frivolous lawsuitsLearn More
Reposted from The Guardian: Today’s climate scientists have a lot more to worry about than peer review. Organizations with perverse…
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