24-07-2017 04:04 via ktoo.org

Climate scientist says he was demoted for speaking out on climate change

Melting ice of the Beaufort Sea near where Eni hopes to drill for oil. (Photo courtesy NOAA)
A former head policy adviser at the Interior Department is accusing the Trump Administration of reassigning him to a lesser position for speaking out about the dangers of climate change.
Joel Clement, a scientist who was director of the Interior Department’s Office of Policy Analysis for much of the Obama Administration, was recently reassigned to work to an “accounting office,” the age
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