State scientists say federal draft report justifying environmental rollbacks is riddled with errors, from sea ice data to wildfire trends.
SHORELINE, Wash. — Washington state scientists are rebuking a federal draft report that could be used to roll back environmental regulations, calling its science inaccurate and misleading.
On Friday, the state Department of Ecology issued a formal condemnation of the U.S. Department of Energy report, which the Trump administration is using to justify revoking a 2009 government finding that climate change threatens public health and welfare. That “endangerment finding” underpins many pollution rules for cars, power plants and other sources.
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