The Anti-Scientists
How the Work of a Contrarian Minority Provided a Foundation for the Trump Administration’s War on Environmental Science
The administration’s global assault on climate science and roll back of more than 100 environmental protections rested on the work of a small number of outlier scientists. Despite widespread criticism of their work —and abundant evidence refuting it—the scientists were given seats on Environmental Protection Agency scientific advisory boards, elevated to high-level positions in agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and placed in influential roles in federal efforts like the National Climate Assessment.
This series takes an in-depth look at three scientists and how their work was used to justify the rollback of protective rules and create a counterweight to the mainstream consensus on climate change. And in a final piece for the series, ICN tells the story of the many scientists who , from inside and outside the federal government, fought back against the administration’s attack on environmental science.
How a Contrarian Scientist Helped Trump’s EPA Defy Mainstream Science
James Enstrom’s work on particle pollution’s health effects contradicts the findings of dozens of studies, but that hasn’t stopped the agency from relying on it.
By Marianne Lavelle


War on NOAA? A Climate Denier’s Arrival Raises Fears the Agency’s Climate Mission Is Under Attack
By Marianne Lavelle

When Trump’s EPA Needed a Climate Scientist, They Called on John Christy
By MARIANNE LAVELLE, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS, AND DENNIS PILLION, AL.COM
