Conservatives Eye Data Law To Force Retraction Of Trump's Climate Study

Conservatives usually allied with the Trump administration are considering filing a data quality petition to force officials to withdraw or correct their recently released National Climate Assessment (NCA), charging it is flawed, undercuts the president's pledges to reexamine climate science and will drive suits to force regulatory action. Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) who also led the Trump administration's EPA transition team after the 2016 election, says he believes...