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EPA kept scientists from speaking about climate change at Rhode Island event
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/23/epa-kept-scientists-from-speaking-about-climate-change-at-rhode-island-eventAP, The Guardian
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The Environmental Protection Agency kept three scientists from speaking at a Rhode Island event about a report that deals in part with climate change.
The scientists were expected to discuss in Providence on Monday a report on the health of Narragansett Bay, New England’s largest estuary. The EPA did not explain exactly why the scientists were told not to.
“EPA supports the Narragansett Bay Estuary and just this month provided the program a $600,000 grant,” EPA spokeswoman Nancy Grantham said in a statement on Monday. “EPA scientists are attending, they simply are not presenting. It is not an EPA conference.”
Thomas Borden, program director of the Narragansett Bay Estuary Program, which published the report, said Wayne Munns, director of the EPA’s Atlantic Ecology Division, called him on Friday afternoon to say two staffers who work out of its research lab in the town of Narragansett had been advised that they could not attend on Monday.
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