Environmentalists Warn Trump Grant EO Will Further Politicize Science

Environmentalists are warning that President Donald Trump’s recent executive order (EO) to “improve” federal grantmaking will instead likely lay a dangerous path to further politicize science at EPA in the wake of Administrator Lee Zeldin’s decision to move key scientists to his office as part of the agency’s reorganization. The “most obvious thing” the EO does is it “politicizes something that should fundamentally not be political and if anything should be strictly merit-based, which is the awarding of these kinds...