Republican attorneys general are escalating attacks on judicial education, asking the Trump administration to yank federal grants from two leading scientific agencies that played a role in producing the climate chapter of a judicial manual.
A Wednesday letter from 24 attorneys general asked the departments of Energy, Transportation and Defense to pull funding from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and the National Science Foundation, saying the organizations “violated their public commitments” by engaging in a “biased process.”
The letter comes three weeks after the coalition asked the National Academies to take the chapter off its website, arguing that the material skewed against the fossil fuel industry.
The National Academies declined, with its president, Marcia McNutt, telling the attorneys general the entire Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, including the chapter on climate science, “will continue to be available on the Academy’s website.”
