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Union Of Concerned Scientists Say Trump Administration's EPA Rollbacks Are Stifling Science

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

This conversation is part III of our three-part series called “Silencing Science.”


Host Robin Young talks to Michael Halpern, the deputy director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, about the stifling of science he sees at the Environmental Protection Agency under the Trump administration.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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