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Elizabeth Shogren is a senior reporter and producer for Reveal, covering science. As part of a new initiative, Shogren tracks the real-life effects of the anti-science mentality that has seeped into many corners of the federal government. Previously, Shogren was an on-air environment correspondent for NPR’s national and science desks. She has also covered the environment and energy for the Los Angeles Times and High Country News. While at NPR, she was a lead reporter for Poisoned Places, a data-driven series about the toxic air pollution that plagues some communities because of the failure of government to implement a decades-old federal law. The series received several honors, including a Science in Society journalism award from the National Association of Science Writers. Her High Country News investigations of the federal coal program and the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s failure to adjust to climate change won the Society of Professional Journalists’ Top of the Rockies prizes. Early in her career, as a freelance foreign correspondent, she covered the fall of communism in Eastern Europe before joining the Los Angeles Times’ Moscow bureau. Later, she joined the paper’s Washington bureau, where she covered the White House, Congress, poverty and the environment. Shogren is based in Washington, D.C.
Trump’s deregulatory fervor bolsters the chemical industry and Defense Department’s effort to debunk the science linking TCE to fetal heart defects.
An internal scientific evaluation of TCE obtained by Reveal shows detailed interference by the Executive Office of the President.
Advisory panels slashed, environmental regulations rolled back – how the Trump administration uses questionable science to justify its policies.
Scientists under political pressure “basically knew the answer that the White House wanted, and they were going to cook the books,” one engineer says.
Advisory panels slashed – environmental regulations rolled back. How the Trump Administration uses questionable science to justify its policies.
President Donald Trump says he doubts humans have much of a role in climate change. His administration has sought to silence scientists.
Researchers contracted by the National Park Service have projected what happen to some iconic national parks if greenhouse gases keep growing.
Trump’s interior secretary nominee, David Bernhardt, has pushed to weaken long-standing protections for migratory birds, alarming scientists.
A recording of oil industry executives shows them rejoicing over their access to David Bernhardt, the nominee for interior secretary.
Climate change scientist Maria Caffrey led a trailblazing study outlining the risks of rising seas at national parks.
