April 28, 2020The World Health Organization is a 194-nation cooperative that promotes public health and saves lives across the globe. Unlike Trump, the WHO responded quickly and aggressively to COVID-19. Now Trump is trying to flip the script — accusing the WHO of incompetence and cover-up.
April 24, 2020Widely recognized as one of the world's preeminent climatologists, Sir John Houghton was well-known for his theories on the compatibility of science and religious faith. He passed away this month from coronavirus at the age of 88.
April 16, 2020By Apr. 10, on a per capita basis, US testing still lags far behind other countries, including South Korea and Italy. But at a press briefing, Trump says, “We’re leading the world now in testing, by far, and we’re going to keep it that way.”
April 16, 2020Obama’s team briefed Trump’s transition team on a simulation that anticipated the very type of outbreak now blanketing the earth, but Trump ignored its lessons. Trump inherited a White House pandemic response team, but he disbanded it.
September 12, 2017Despite clear health and environmental risks, the Department of the Interior has halted a mountaintop coal mining study.
September 8, 2017The courts may have to do what too many of our elected officials have so far failed to do: acknowledge scientific reality.
May 23, 2017The GOP is trying to make federal agencies more industry friendly — and many worry that that will mean using bunk science.
May 18, 2017By targeting specific regional efforts alongside more general environmental justice funding, the Trump administration might have inadvertently given opponents a means to fight back.
April 24, 2017It seems to be a media rule: If you’re “not a scientist,” pick the wrong one you like as your go-to authority.
