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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Reuters) – From his lab in Toulouse, France, Benjamin Sanderson models the range of extreme risks to humans from climate change, research he hopes can inform policymakers planning for worsening wildfires and floods. It is the kind of work he once performed in the United States – and hopes to again soon.
Sanderson is among dozens of U.S.-based climate scientists who shifted their research to France, or sought refuge in academia or in left-leaning states like California after Republican Donald Trump was elected in 2016. They worried his administration’s distrust of science would impact their ability to finance and advance their work.
Now, with the presidential election looming – and Democrat Joe Biden ahead in the polls and promising to prioritize the role of science in policymaking – some of these researchers hope for a return to the days when the United States was viewed as the best place on earth to do their jobs.
Climate science in Europe is not treated as a “political topic,” Sanderson said, adding that he would consider returning to the United States under an administration that valued scientific input.
In the United States, the role of scientific research in public policy is clearly on the ballot in the Nov. 3 presidential election.
Some Republicans have sought to undermine the research showing human-caused climate change since long before Trump was elected in 2016, but the sidelining of science-based recommendations in policy decisions has only accelerated since.
Against the advice of researchers, Trump announced plans in 2017 to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, an international accord to fight global warming. He argued the pact would devastate the economy without providing much environmental benefit. His administration has since rolled back more than 100 environmental protections it deemed burdensome to industry, including those seeking to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Trump has also appointed industry insiders or climate change doubters to key roles overseeing environmental regulation and cut scientific advisory committees at federal agencies.
The politicization of science has come into sharper focus this year amid the coronavirus pandemic, as Trump has ridiculed and ignored many research findings and recommendations from the administration’s top infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The administration has made a habit of “ignoring, sidelining and censoring” scientific researchers, according to an August statement by the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit that advocates for scientific approaches to social and environmental problems.
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy spokeswoman Jordan Hunter did not comment on the departure of scientists under Trump or on the administration’s handling of research on climate change and the pandemic. She said the administration was “committed to ensuring the next great scientific breakthroughs happen in America,” such as artificial intelligence and space exploration.
Biden, by contrast, has promised to fight climate change and to use scientific research and advice to tackle the pandemic. His transition team is already seeking
A committee investigation found that Dream Center deceptively enrolled students at campuses that had lost accreditation and raked in taxpayer money in the process. Investigators say the Trump administration tried to shield the company from the consequences of its lies and shield itself from an ill-fated decision to allow millions of dollars to flow to those schools.
In a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos obtained by The Washington Post, committee chairman Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-Va.) said the department has obstructed the investigation at every turn.
“The Department has regularly ignored the Committee’s emails and requests to negotiate. [It] has repeatedly agreed to prioritize certain requested documents only to later abandon those commitments and instead produce unrelated documents,” Scott wrote in the letter dated Oct. 22. “When the Department ultimately complied … it provided almost entirely redacted document sets without indicating why essential content was withheld.”
The House committee has asked three senior career staffers, whose names the committee declined to provide, to testify at depositions to be held next month.
Education Department spokeswoman Angela Morabito said it is “wholly unreasonable” to subpoena career civil servants in this case, especially when the federal agency has offered the committee thousands of pages of requested documents.
“Instead of conducting business in a lawful, rational, and responsible way, the unhinged Democrats have resorted to badgering career civil servants to carry on what is nothing more than a witch hunt,” Morabito said.
Dream Center’s acquisition of the for-profit schools has become a black eye for the Education Department. DeVos supported the 2017 deal even though the company, an arm of a Christian nonprofit organization, had no higher education experience.
The Los Angeles company needed the blessing of the Education Department and several accrediting agencies, including the Higher Learning Commission. As a condition of its approval, the commission downgraded the accreditation of two Art Institute campuses until they could improve the quality of instruction.
According to the congressional investigation, the commission told Dream Center in January 2018 to inform its students that the two Art Institutes were no longer accredited, but the company waited until June of that year to take action. Students kept enrolling, earning credits and degrees that were rendered worthless by the loss of accreditation.
The Education Department continued to provide students nearly $11 million in loans, even though for-profit colleges must be fully accredited to participate in federal student aid programs. To rectify the problem, the department in May 2018 designated the schools as nonprofits effective Jan. 20, 2018, the date they lost their accreditation, according to letters obtained by the committee.
The move allowed Dream Center to circumvent rules governing for-profit institutions and helped justify the department’s decision to let millions of dollars to flow to the campuses. But Dream Center still needed the blessing of the commission for the credits and degrees it conferred to students during the lapse in accreditation to have value. As the company hemorrhaged money and the closure of the campuses was imminent,