The CDC was preparing to consider whether to revise the federal standard for lead poisoning set most recently in 1991. Just a few weeks before the committee's scheduled meeting, the George W. Bush administration intervened.
Department of Energy experts disagreed with CIA that confiscated aluminum tubes bound for Iraq were to be used in gas centrifuges for enriching uranium, but Bush administration officials said Iraq planned to use them for nuclear missiles.
Bush administration political appointees pressured investigators at the Mine Safety and Health Administration to prematurely wrap up an ongoing investigation into the causes of the massive October 2000 coal slurry spill in Martin County, Kentucky.
For years, NASA and NOAA officials have held back from publicizing significant climate change science to avoid highlighting research contradicting the administration’s policies.
After the George W. Bush administration came into office, the entire scientific committee that advised the State Department on technical matters related to arms control was dismissed.
Six leading ecologists were asked to remove science-based recommendations from an official report on the recovery of populations of salmon in the Northwest.