A coalition of blue states is calling on the education and research arm of the federal court system to reinstate a climate science chapter it erased from a reference manual after complaints from Republicans.
In a letter to the Federal Judicial Center, 23 Democratic attorneys general — along with New York City; Chicago; and Harris County, Texas — assert that the removal will “impede the judiciary’s ability to pursue truth.”
“Partisan actors should have no input into the substantive determination of what constitutes accurate and reliable information,” the letter states. Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, who led the letter, said in a statement that “ignoring science does not change reality.”
The letter comes four months after the center yanked the climate science section of a new judicial reference manual following complaints from a group of Republican attorneys general who said the chapter was biased against the fossil fuel industry.
