House Republicans are investigating the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine for conducting a climate science review that they say could “undermine the Trump Administration.”
Last month, the National Academies announced it would fund a fast-track review on “whether greenhouse gas emissions are reasonably anticipated to endanger public health and welfare in the U.S.” The report, due at the end of this month, is intended to inform the Trump administration’s attempt to roll back the endangerment finding, which is the legal and scientific foundation for climate regulations.
On Wednesday, House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky,) sent a letter to National Academies President Marcia McNutt requesting documents and communications between academy officials and federal officials related to the endangerment finding and the review. The organization’s decision to conduct the review, he wrote, appears to be “a blatant partisan act to undermine the Trump Administration.”
“With such an unprecedented short timeline for reviewing evidence gathered over a 16-year period, the Committee is additionally concerned that the results of this study have been predetermined,” Comer wrote.
