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January 26, 2017

Trump Official: EPA Studies to Undergo Political Review Before Publication
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An official with Trump's transition team has announced the Environmental
Protection Agency's scientific studies will now have to undergo a
political review by the Trump administration before being published. The
move is part of a series of attacks by the Trump administration against
the EPA in recent days, which includes freezing all EPA grants and
contracts and imposing a media gag against all employees of the agency.
The administration has also stripped nearly every mention of climate
change from the White House's official website, White House.gov, and
pledged to eliminate Obama's environmental policies, including the
Climate Action Plan.