In his article "Smog Rules" in the current issue of Index on Censorship, CSW director Rick Piltz writes about President Obama, science integrity, and environmental policy. There remain significant questions about the strength and limits of Obama's commitment to scientific integrity, especially in cases when the science might be inconvenient for policymaking and political messaging. 'The lamentable truth,' said Nature in a 15 September editorial on how science and the environment appear to be taking a back seat in Obama’s campaign for re-election, 'is that in the world of US politics, environmental protection is still debated as if it were an optional and expensive accessory to modern living. In the process, science is set aside.' Continue reading
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