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Government Delays First Big U.S. Offshore Wind Farm. Is a Double Standard at Play?
Top CDC Health and Climate Scientist Files Whistleblower Complaint
Government Delays First Big U.S. Offshore Wind Farm. Is a Double Standard at Play?
It ordered an expanded review for Vineyard Wind at the same time Trump is weakening environmental rules for fossil fuel projects that contribute to climate change.
BY PHIL MCKENNA, DAN GEARINO
As the Trump administration takes steps to expedite fossil fuel projects and reduce environmental regulations, it has veered in the opposite direction on offshore wind, delaying a highly anticipated project in Massachusetts.
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Top CDC Health and Climate Scientist Files Whistleblower Complaint
He’s one of several federal scientists working on climate change who say they have been silenced, sidelined or demoted under the Trump administration.
BY MARIANNE LAVELLE , GEORGINA GUSTIN
One of the federal government's leading experts on the health impacts of climate change sought whistleblower protection on Friday because of retaliation he said he has faced for speaking out against the Trump administration's efforts to end climate research.
George Luber, an epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the latest of a string of federal scientists working on climate change who say that they have been silenced, sidelined or demoted.
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'A Death Spiral for Research’: Arctic Scientists Worried as Alaska Universities Face 40% Funding Cut
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