Scientist files complaint alleging Trump administration interfered in climate research

Virginia Burkett, a senior scientist with the US Geological Survey, filed a 200 page complaint last week alleging that she was demoted and removed from chairing a multi-agency commission on climate change after she resisted attempts by the Trump administration to downplay the effects of global warming. What happened to her may happen to other federal scientists under the Project 2025 policy proposal.

Opinion: This is My America

Maybe it was a Kodachrome red, white, and blue history that never really existed, but I believed it. I do not care what was hidden behind the lessons because what I believed matters more. I believed in hope. I believed in an intelligent, reasoned love of country. I believed in the ideal of good and right prevailing. I believed in freedom for all.