The case, which has already been through the trial court twice, now returns to the trial court for a third round.
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Arizona Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Climate ScienceLearn More
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D.C. District Court Rules in Favor of NOAA Climate Scientists in FOIA CaseLearn More
In the case, Judicial Watch sought to use the Freedom of Information Act to obtain NOAA scientists’ emails, drafts, and peer review comments related to a June 2015 paper published in Science.
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Climate Scientists Face Harassment, Threats and Fears of ‘McCarthyist’ AttacksExecutive director Lauren Kurtz and climate scientist Michael Mann discuss attacks on science in the Trump era.
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EPA Official, After Years of Work to Thwart the Agency’s Mission, Returns to Carry Out Trump AgendaCSLDF’s Lauren Kurtz discusses David Schnare, a key member of the Trump transition team, and his anti-science agenda.
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Climate Scientists Challenge Conservatives’ NOAA SuitCSLDF files a legal brief in support of federal climate scientists who are being sued by the conservative organization Judicial Watch.
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Climate Scientists Brace Themselves for a Trump-led Witch-huntCSLDF’s Peter Fontaine talks about how scientists can protect themselves when their work comes under political fire.
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Scientists Prepare to Fight for Their Work During the ‘Trumpocene’Executive Director Lauren Kurtz talks about CSLDF’s activities at the 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting and the development of our pocket guide: “Handling Political Harassment & Legal Intimidation.”
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Science in the CrosshairsExecutive Director Lauren Kurtz discusses CSLDF’s work protecting climate scientists and the legal challenges facing climate scientists and other researchers.
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Two Recent Court Decisions Make Climate Scientists Emails Public“These sorts of lawsuits, regardless of outcome, subtract months of labor from the scientific endeavor and cost public universities hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees,” CSLDF’s Lauren Kurtz said.
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Climate Scientists Under Attack From Frivolous LawsuitsExecutive Director Lauren Kurtz writes about how attacks on climate scientists endanger the scientific endeavor.
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