Trump Plans To 'Reform' How EPA Uses Science, Report Claims

"The leaked report is an extreme version of the kind of climate plans that the Trump camp has already put forward"

"Donald Trump is planning to 'reform' the way that the Environmental Protection Agency uses science, according to a new report.

The new claim comes just days after the first thing on the new White House was an energy policy that called for the EPA to focus primarily on clean air and water, and not on its climate change activity. That same document didn't mention global warming at all – and neither does any other post on the administration's website.

That same approach appears to have carried on to the changes in the way that the EPA will use science in its work. A new document from inside the Trump camp says that the administration will seek to "reform" how the agency uses information."

Andrew Griffin reports for the Independent January 23, 2017.

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