Is White House Flunking Science?

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When President Obama took office, science and environmental journalists were optimistic that they would see an improvement in the Executive Branch's approach to science and the openness with which it treated that science. The assertion in 2006 by James Hansen, NASA's leading climate researcher, that the Bush administration had attempted to prevent him from speaking out on the dangers caused by greenhouse gas emissions in many ways crystallized what was often seen as a distinct lack of scientific transparency over the previous eight years, a state of affairs that reporters hoped would be corrected.

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