Colorado Rep. Joe Neguse has a plan to fight Trump on climate censorship

A freshman Colorado congressman, troubled by allegations of climate censorship by the Trump administration, is attempting to make it harder for political appointees to scrub scientific information from government reports.

Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) introduced legislation this month dubbed the "Stop Climate Censorship Act." If enacted, it would require political appointees at federal agencies to provide data to back up any decisions to remove climate change content from scientific studies or press releases.

Neguse introduced the bill with two of his Democratic colleagues, Reps. Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon and Sean Casten of Illinois.

In order to implement bold policies to tackle climate change, Bonamici said, "those policies must be informed by the best available science. At a time when the Trump Administration regularly dismisses and denies climate science, it is our responsibility to protect the work of federal science agencies and to make sure that scientists are heard and supported rather than censored."