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A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study aimed at investigating how the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement could improve its inspections of offshore oil and gas development was halted by DOI.

On December 15, 2017, news broke the Trump administration was prohibiting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from using the words “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based."

Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, repeatedly stated that the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul would pay for itself through economic growth and that a Treasury Department analysis would provide evidence of this, but never showed such evidence.

The Department of Energy withheld almost $100 million of appropriated funds from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The Agency funds high-risk energy research projects that have the potential to yield high rewards.

The Environmental Protection Agency hired a Republican public relations firm to take over tracking the agency’s press coverage. The firm is linked with a Republican opposition research group that had filed information requests against EPA employees

After Joshua Tree National Park’s Twitter account published a series of tweets based on climate change science, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke reprimanded the park’s superintendent and ordered the park to cease posting tweets on climate change.

Several months after undermining the independence of one of EPA’s main advisory committees, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt attacked the independence of another, the Science Advisory Board (SAB), by ordering that no scientists receiving EPA grant funding

Three EPA scientists were prevented from speaking at a conference on the effects of climate change.

A leaked draft of the Department of Interior’s strategic plan for 2018-2022 eliminated all mention of climate change and instead prioritized energy production on public lands.

John Konkus, a political appointee reviewing grant solicitations and proposals at the EPA, is cutting references to climate change—and canceling competitively awarded grants.