Trump Administration Deserts Science Advisory Boards Across Agencies"

"While top-level science positions remain vacant, scientific advisory panels have been quietly diminished, disbanded or stacked with industry scientists."

"Shortly after President Donald Trump took office, Paul Beier, a professor at Northern Arizona University and a member of a little known government science panel that advised the Interior Department on climate change, got an email.

"It basically said, 'Thank you very much,'" Beier recalled. "I said, 'Is this a goodbye letter?' They said, 'Yeah, you're done'."

Beier was one of 25 people on the Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Science, a panel that advised the Department of Interior on ways to minimize the impacts of climate change at natural and culturally important sites. Like dozens of panels and boards formed to advise government agencies on science-related challenges, the committee met regularly and offered recommendations."

Georgina Gustin reports for InsideClimate News January 18, 2018.

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