Since 2017, an official at the U.S. Interior Department has led a campaign that has inserted misleading language about climate change into the agency’s scientific reports, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times nyti.ms/3akGxCJ
The misleading language appears in 9 reports so far, including environmental studies and impact statements on major watersheds in the American West nytimes.com/2020/03/02/cli… 
The effort was led by Indur Goklany, who was promoted to deputy secretary of the U.S. Interior Department in 2017. By early 2018, the emails show, the bureau had adopted a de facto requirement that studies reference climate uncertainty. nytimes.com/2020/03/02/cli…
Both scientists and environmental groups are concerned that Indur Goklany’s campaign will start to build a body of evidence that will undermine the agency’s response to climate change. Read our full report here: nytimes.com/2020/03/02/cli…
