Trump Administration Allegedly Undermined EPA Findings; Researchers Cite 'Brain Drain' Amid Scientific Attacks

Last month, climate scientist and author Kate Marvel resigned from her position at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where she had spent more than a decade studying a warming world. In her resignation letter, she cited the Trump administration’s attacks on the field. “I anticipated that our work would be questioned,” she wrote, “but only because its implications were politically inconvenient. I never expected that science itself would come under attack.” Marvel joins more than 10,000 professionals with doctoral degrees in the sciences who have left the federal workforce since President Trump took office in January 2025: a period that has seen the administration evict the Goddard Institute from its historic home on the Columbia University campus, dissolve the U.S. Global Change Research Program, dismiss the nearly 400 authors of the next National Climate Assessment, and repeal the legal foundation for federal regulation of greenhouse gases.

Bennett said it was a “tremendously exciting time” for scientific and medical research, but warned that the US administration’s attacks on science could “cause damage for generations to come”, leading her to fear brain drain. “Agendas have become politicised, government agencies that support basic and applied research have been undermined, knowledgable advisers and experts have been dismissed or have fled and revised guidelines contradict decades of rigorous research,” https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/19/the-oscar-of-science-awarded-to-scientists-behind-genetic-treatment-that-restores-lost-vision-win

‘Science needs defending’: record number of researchers run for office in US mid-terms. Many Democrats making the switch to politics are motivated by the Trump administration’s cuts to science. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01134-2 #USpol #science #research #democracy

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**Records of Trump Administration’s Illegal “Climate Working Group” Available Online** *Environmental Defense Fund, Union of Concerned Scientists Obtained Documents By Court Order Related to Attack on Endangerment*Trump Energy Secretary Chris Wright secretly arranged for five hand-picked climate contrarians to form the “Climate Working Group” last year. They were assigned to secretly draft a biased report challenging the overwhelming scientific consensus underpinning the Endangerment Finding – EPA's foundational scientific finding that climate pollution endangers public health and the environment. That report was kept hidden until it was unveiled as part of the Trump administration EPA’s proposal to overturn the Endangerment Finding last July.  From www.edf.org/media/records-trump-administrations-illegal-climate-working-group-available-onlineThe "energy secretary" is a climate change denier who's been using the full power of the US state to broadcast climate change denial. Good on EDF and UCS for freeing these documents so that everyone can see for themselves the level of treachery and deceit involved. #US #USPol #ClimateChange #climate #GlobalHeating #ClimateDeniers

Science job cuts spark ‘brain drain’ warning from researchers https://www.byteseu.com/1945541/ #EDUCATION #Employment #NewZealand #Politics #Science