Sentences with phrase «scientists at other agencies»

«Bush public relations appointees were muzzling scientists at other agencies, or altering scientific information in official agency reports to fit a preconceived ideological agenda,» Otto reports, with reference to a New York Times article detailing the actions of an oil industry lobbyist in the White House environmental office to manipulate goverernment climate research communication.

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The Tenth Workshop on Food Allergen Methodologies aims at gathering scientists, chemists, analysts and other representatives from government agencies, university, industry and consumer associations, to discuss issues related to detection, identification, characterization, and control of allergen residues in foods.
As Congress develops public policy, I will continue to engage and seek counsel from our world class scientists and technicians working at the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Institute on Standards and Technology, and other federal agencies.
Turner, a social scientist at City University of New York / Queens College, offered his cautionary story last month at a conference * called by a key federal watchdog agency to announce a $ 1 million grants program to investigate the prevalence of fraud, data fabrication, plagiarism, and other questionable practices in science.
The challenge, which was announced at an asteroid initiative industry and partner day at NASA Headquarters in Washington, is a large - scale effort that will use multi-disciplinary collaborations and a variety of partnerships with other government agencies, international partners, industry, academia, and citizen scientists.
To help new or even veteran scientists sort through these opportunities, Next Wave writers talked with individuals at agencies and institutions, and with other scientists helping defend against terror - related threats:
Scientists at NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as well as other international agencies constantly monitor the stratospheric ozone layer and the levels of ozone - depleting chemicals at Earth's surface.
Jeremy is now a Senior Energy Analyst in the Climate and Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, conducting analytical work on the Environmental Protection Agency's carbon regulations and other areas of energy research.
Since I am a planetary scientist in my other life, I end up in Montréal from time to time at the nearby headquarters of the Canadian Space Agency.
«NASA science activities have provided a wave of amazing findings related to water in recent years that inspire us to continue investigating our origins and the fascinating possibilities for other worlds, and life, in the universe,» comments Dr. Ellen Stofan, Chief Scientist for NASA at the agency's headquarters, in Washington, D.C. «In our lifetime, we may very well finally answer whether we are alone in the Solar System and beyond.»
Money Well Spent: Foundations Support Cutting - Edge Science The research of Nobel laureate K. Barry Sharpless and other innovative scientists at TSRI would not be possible without support from foundations, donors, and agencies.
The Bush Administration's castration of scientists at EPA and other agencies ranks as one of the most brazen and destructive policies I have observed anywhere.
Two years after James E. Hansen, the leading climate scientist at NASA, and other agency employees described a pattern of distortion and suppression of climate science by political appointees, the agency's inspector general has concluded that such activities occurred and were «inconsistent» with the law that established the space program 50 years ago.
At the same time, GAP conducted 40 in - depth interviews with federal climate scientists and other officials and analyzed thousands of pages of government documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and inside sources, regarding agency media policies and Congressional communications.
Last week, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R) sent a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson asking her to maintain the current standard and saying the agency is not allowing «for full consideration of alternatives and review by expert scientist at other federal agencies
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