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EPA Chief to Launch Program to ‘Critique’ Climate Science

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Agency seeks to conduct “at-length evaluation of U.S. climate science.”

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Scott Pruitt, chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will lead a formal program to “critique” mainstream climate science, E&E News reported on Friday. According to the energy-focused news outlet, “The program will use ‘red team, blue team’ exercises to conduct an ‘at-length evaluation of U.S. climate science,’ [a senior] official said, referring to a concept developed by the military to identify vulnerabilities in field operations.”

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