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Can Joe Biden rebuild the ravaged US Environmental Protection Agency?

Scientists reveal further details about the damage sustained under Trump — and the challenges for Biden in restoring science’s standing at the agency.
  1. Jeff Tollefson
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For many scientists at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the past four years working in President Donald Trump’s government have felt like an eternity. Largely sidelined, they could only watch as his administration dismantled science advisory panels, disregarded scientific evidence and weakened pollution regulations.

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Nature 588, 545-546 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03585-7

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  • Correction 17 December 2020: This story was updated to reflect that Carol Browner headed the EPA under former President Bill Clinton, not under former President Barack Obama.

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