EPA Officials Defend Agency's Duty To Follow Science On Climate Change

摘要

Current and former senior EPA officials are defending the agency's prerogative to follow the best available science on climate change from what they say are politically motivated attacks by the Trump administration and other critics of greenhouse gas (GHG) rules, arguing that addressing climate change is one of EPA's fundamental tasks. At the May 2 annual Health Effects Institute (HEI) conference in Alexandria, VA, senior EPA research staffer Dan Costa - who said he was speaking in a strictly personal capacity - and former Obama EPA science policy adviser Thomas Burke both sought to defend the agency's scientific research program, particularly on climate change.