Dems Press Trump on Climate Report

House Democrats, led by Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Chair Kathy Castor (Fla.), Natural Resources Chair Raúl Grijalva (Ariz.), and Reps. Don Beyer (Va.) and Suzanne Bonamici (Ore.), made clear their opposition to any attempts by the Trump administration to derail the fifth National Climate Assessment, amid several staffing moves in recent weeks atop the U.S. Global Change Research Program. In a copy of a letter to the president shared with ME, the Democratic lawmakers urge President Donald Trump to increase transparency and "make sure that the NCA process is driven by high quality, evidence-based, peer-reviewed science."