In April 2006, the US Fish and Wildlife Service finalized plans to reduce by nearly 90 percent the critical habitat set aside for the protection of a rare California frog.

The U.S. Election Assistance Commission under President GW Bush, a federal panel charged with conducting elections research, misrepresented the findings of bipartisan experts on the highly politicized topic of voter fraud.

EPA moved swiftly to implement a plan to close large parts of its network of 27 libraries, potentially putting decades worth of valuable information beyond the reach of government scientists and independent researchers.

In March 2005, a World Health Organization (WHO) expert committee unanimously recommended adding two abortion pills to its Essential Medicines list. U.S. government tried to block the listing of the abortion pills.

The EPA cut back reporting requirements of the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) despite past success.

In 2005, the Department of Justice misused sleep deprivation research in memorandums sent to the CIA to help justify the CIA’s use of sleep deprivation, along with additional CIA interrogation techniques used on “high value” detainees.

In September 2005, NOAA scientist Dr. Pieter Tans was asked to cancel a conference session on energy use and the carbon cycle due to policy implications and was told that the words “climate change” could not appear in the titles of any presentations.

In July 2005, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) delayed the release of a report showing that the average fuel efficiency of American cars and trucks had declined since the late 1980s.

The extent to which greenhouse gas emissions from human activity contribute to an increase in hurricane number and intensity in recent years, is a matter of active scientific debate.

In August 2005, the Department of Justice demoted an official who fought efforts to suppress an agency study which found evidence of racial profiling by police officers.