On October 13, 2017, the Interior Department sent a supportive letter to border patrol officials considering Mr. Trump’s proposed wall along the southwestern frontier, but deleted concerns by scientist about the harm that a physical structure could cause the habitats of rare cats and other wildlife in the area, according to the report. A few days later the E.P.A. barred three agency scientists from speaking at a conference in Rhode Island about the effects of climate change on the Narragansett Bay. A week after that the F.B.I. issued its annual report of crime data with 70 percent fewer data tables. The changes, according to a report at the time, did not go through the normal review process.
“Policies governing the health and welfare of the public and of our shared environment have to be based in credible, independent science,” Ms. Whitman said in emailed remarks. “For the public to lose faith in that process will call into question everything that has been done to make our drugs and food safe and our environment healthier.”
The authors maintain that, without action from Congress, future administrations of either party could further erode the independence of federal scientific data. Among the changes it recommended was legislation to require that all federal agencies that perform scientific research articulate clear standards for, and report on, how political officials interact with career scientists.
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