EPA chief says agency scientists are free to present their work publicly
Source: Washington Post
EPA chief says agency scientists are free to present their work publicly
By Brady Dennis December 6 at 3:52 PM
The Environmental Protection Agency will not block its scientists from freely discussing their work in public, Administrator Scott Pruitt promised lawmakers this week, in the wake of a recent incident in which researchers were barred from presenting findings on climate change at a conference.
In a letter to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and other members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Pruitt did not explain why the EPA had instructed two of its scientists and one contractor not to speak as planned at an Oct. 23 scientific meeting in Providence, R.I. The agency had previously said only that it was “not an EPA conference.”
But Pruitt did write that such action would not happen again.
“Procedures have been put in place to prevent such an occurrence in the future,” he noted in his letter, which was first obtained by the New York Times. And, he continued, he has assured senior leaders in the agency’s Office of Research and Development “that they have the authority to make decisions about event participation going forward.”
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