Federal scientists work on everything from agriculture and housing to weather forecasts and electricity generation. Many worry they will face censorship if Trump wins in November.
A woman walks before dawn in Toksook Bay, Alaska, in 2020. Congress approved millions of dollars to connect the community to the new site for the village of Newtok, which was forced to move because of erosion related to climate change. Many scientists who worked on climate-related projects struggled to continue their work under the Trump administration.Joel Clement is a forest ecologist by training.
"We worked with scientists who were terminated from their positions because they spoke out about climate issues, who were reassigned because they work on climate, who were censored, whose research was manipulated," says Lauren Kurtz, the executive director of the fund. She says the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund received about 300 requests for assistance during the Trump administration.
Trump has distanced himself from the effort, writing on Truth Social:"I disagree with some of the things they're saying and some of the things they're saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal." "Folks will be a little more ready — a lot more ready, frankly — for the scope of this assault on science, if Trump were to be elected," says Clement, who says he has also noticed many scientists speaking out more about misinformation in their fields.
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