US science rues ongoing demotion of research under President Trump – Physics World
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Summary:
"In his first cabinet meeting on 26 February, Trump suggested that officials “use scalpels” when trimming their departments’ spending and personnel – rather than Musk’s figurative chainsaw. But bosses at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) still plan to cut its budget by about two-thirds...
The White House’s attack on climate science goes beyond just the EPA. In January, the US Department of Agriculture removed almost all data on climate change from its website....
The Trump administration has also barred NASA’s now former chief scientist Katherine Calvin and members of the State Department from travelling to China for a planning meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Meanwhile, in a speech to African energy ministers in Washington on 7 March, US energy secretary Chris Wright claimed that coal has “transformed our world and made it better”, adding that climate change, while real, is not on his list of the world’s top 10 problems....
At the National Institutes of Health (NIH), staff are being told to cancel hundreds of research grants that involve DEI and transgender issues...."