«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.
Not exact matches
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.»