Trump team's assault on climate science continues

Plus: Soldier's widow speaks out No Images? Click here         EPA Abruptly Blocks 3 Agency Scientists From Giving Talks On Climate Change The Environmental Protection Agency has reportedly barred three agency scientists from giving talks about climate change at a conference in Rhode Island days before they were scheduled to speak. The researchers were booked to appear Monday in Providence at the State of the Narragansett Bay and Watershed workshop, an event highlighting the health of New England’s largest estuary, where temperatures have risen 3 degrees Fahrenheit and water has risen up to seven inches over the past century.   The New York Times first reported the news on Sunday. EPA spokesman John Konkus, a former Trump campaign operative in Florida, provided an emailed statement to The Washington Post and The Hill confirming the cancellations: “EPA scientists are attending, they simply are not presenting, it is not an EPA conference.” Konkus did not respond to an email and text message from HuffPost on Sunday evening. The move comes days after the EPA scrubbed dozens of links from its website to materials that helped local governments deal with the effects of climate change. Administrator Scott Pruitt has said he does not believe greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels cause climate change, and has scrapped or proposed eliminating numerous regulations to reduce emissions. Two weeks ago, he proposed repealing the Clean Power Plan, the federal government’s primary policy for slashing utilities’ output of planet-warming gases.  READ MORE     WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING? U.S. senators shared their #MeToo sexual harassment stories. Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she was “chased around a desk” by a former colleague. READ MORE The widow of a U.S. soldier killed in Niger said she was “hurt” when President Donald Trump told her in a phone call last week that her husband “knew what he signed up for.” “It made me cry even worse.” READ MORE Megyn Kelly reveals she complained to Fox News about Bill O'Reilly. Kelly said she’d emailed Bill Shine and Jack Abernethy, co-presidents of Fox News, about O’Reilly’s alleged conduct, urging them to take action and change Fox’s culture of “shaming women into shutting the hell up about harassment.” READ MORE    .     ICYMI What happens when a troubled police department refuses to reform? In Albuquerque, they’ve been getting away with it.   Ferguson, meanwhile, is undermining Jeff Sessions' argument against DOJ-led police reform. The Trump administration doesn’t think the Justice Department should investigate local police departments. But in Ferguson, there’s “light at the end of that tunnel.”   Harvard students told us what they're learning from Sean Spicer, who has been rewarded for his brief stint as White House press secretary with a prestigious fellowship at the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government for the fall semester.     . Want more?  Trump To Release Classified Files On JFK Assassination   John McCain Slams Wealthy Draft Dodgers In Apparent Swipe At Trump   Sen. Sherrod Brown: Steve Bannon ‘Is A White Supremacist’   How will Trump’s administration impact you? Sign up for our email and find out. Did a friend send you this? Subscribe here. Like what you see? Share it. Want more? Here are two other newsletters you'll love: The Morning Email and Must Reads. ©2017 HuffPost | 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you signed up for updates from HuffPost Feedback | Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe    . - - Preferences  |  Unsubscribe