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What Do Fetal Tissue and Climate Have in Common? Silencing of Science and...
Taking a page from the House Science Committee chairman’s harassment of NOAA scientists, the majority staff of a special ‘House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives’ recently issued more than a...
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Abuse of Power: ExxonMobil, Chairman Lamar Smith, and the First Amendment
Yesterday the New York Times printed a full-page advertisement sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a free-market think tank that has been funded by ExxonMobil and has regularly...
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House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith Defends ExxonMobil, Subpoenas...
Today House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith sent congressional subpoenas to several attorneys general and nonprofit organizations—including the Union of Concerned Scientists—demanding access to...
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My Education in Climate-Denial Jujitsu
“If we aren’t going to listen to the experts when we craft our bills, I’m really not sure what we’re doing here,” said Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) as I took my seat in the chambers of the House...
View ArticleHouse Science Committee Holds Hearing on Its Own Authority: Chairman Smith...
This morning the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held a hearing to discuss its legal authority to issue subpoenas its Chairman had already issued. Yes, you read that correctly. House...
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Sharing Our Climate Deception Research with Lamar Smith (Again)
The House Science Committee is continuing to pursue its baseless and dangerous subpoenas that, if enforced, would strike a significant blow to the First Amendment. Yesterday, we sent a response to...
View ArticleThe House Science Committee’s Shameful Climate Sideshow
There are a lot of ways one can imagine, in principle, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology holding a constructive, timely hearing on the state of climate science and its implications...
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A Good Move from Chairman Smith and the House Science Committee: Tackling...
The government may not be operating this week and Congress has been an ongoing part of the many attacks on science in the past year but last week Congress did something good. A bipartisan effort in the...
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Here are the “Transparency” Policy Documents the EPA Does Not Want You to See
Photo: US Department of DefenseOn April 17th, the Union of Concerned Scientists obtained EPA records through three separate Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests demonstrating that a proposed...
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Zombie Truck Theater: A House Science Committee Hearing
The issue of glider trucks, new truck bodies with old polluting engines, has come up in Congress yet again. This time, it moves over to the House Science Committee, a place where Chairman Lamar Smith...
View ArticleWhat Was the Top #ScienceFail for 2014?
Science isn’t easy. Scientific research is often difficult, tedious, and can take years to come to fruition. And it’s because it takes such dogged effort to reach solid scientific conclusions that we...
View ArticleScientific Societies Fight Legislation Designed to "Advance Scientific...
Yep, that’s right. Several prominent scientific and academic societies have come out swinging against the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act, legislation that supporters say will promote cutting-edge...
View ArticleHouse Science Committee Investigations—Remember Our History
This week marks the anniversary of a sad chapter in American history, the beginning of the US House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities’ (HUAC) investigative hearings into communism...
View ArticleThe House Science Committee's Witch Hunt Against NOAA Scientists
We have long been suspicious of the House Science Committee’s expanded subpoena power. The evidence now demonstrates that the committee is using this new authority not to conduct effective oversight...
View ArticleAmerican Meteorological Society Slams House Science Committee Witch Hunt
The American Meteorological Society today issued a strongly-worded letter condemning House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith’s ongoing harassment of government climate scientists. The letter is in...
View ArticleNOAA Pushes Back on Chairman Smith's Claims on Climate Science Paper
On Monday, I wrote a blog post of FAQs on House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith’s subpoena to NOAA scientists over publication of a new climate science paper. Now NOAA speaks out against Rep....
View ArticleQuestioning House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith's Claims of NOAA...
For several months, House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith has been unable to justify his investigation into the work of NOAA climate scientists whose research finds that global warming has not...
View ArticleRep. Lamar Smith Versus Science: The Department of Commerce and NOAA Respond
The Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration continue to resist attempts by House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith to discredit a scientific study of global...
View ArticleChairman Smith Backs Off on Demands for NOAA Scientists’ Emails – For Now
House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith’s investigation into the work of NOAA scientists took a new turn Tuesday when he temporarily limited the scope of his demands for communications related to...
View ArticleHundreds of Scientists Speak Up to Support NOAA Climate Research
Hundreds of experts have signed two letters thanking NOAA administrator Kathryn Sullivan for continuing to stand firm against House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith’s attempts to politicize...
View ArticleThe Chair of the House Science Committee Is Harassing NOAA Climate Scientists...
House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith has revived his misguided crusade against climate change scientists who work for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In a letter to NOAA...
View ArticleAs NOAA Head Testifies in Congress, 90,000 Ask Science Committee Chairman to...
Tomorrow, NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan will testify before the House Science Committee. It is possible that Rep. Lamar Smith, the committee’s chairman, will take the opportunity to ask her about...
View ArticleHouse Science Chairman Continues to Chart His Own Lonely Path on Climate Change
In a hearing today House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith questioned NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan on the agency’s climate change research. He made three claims that deserve additional...
View ArticleWhat I Told Congress: Five Ways to Rebuild Scientific Capacity in Federal...
Last Wednesday, I testified before the US House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight. And it was a productive hearing, not least because there was...
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