Climate Science Legal Defense Fund gears up for a busy four years
Yale Climate Connections | Dr. Jeff Masters | December 13, 2024
The last time Donald Trump was president, his administration pulled the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement, removed information about climate change from agency websites, and buried the findings of federal scientists. As Trump prepares to return to office, the nonprofit Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, which provides free legal and educational support to researchers facing harassment and intimidation for their work, is gearing up for a high-stakes protracted struggle to protect scientists…
…”We were typically hearing from about one scientist per week preelection, which was already putting us on track to beat our record for most scientists helped in a year. Now, postelection, we’re hearing from three to four scientists per week.”