(The Center Square) - Lawmakers in Congress and President Donald Trump scrutinized a nonprofit research academy that has received millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded federal grants while producing a report linking global energy companies to climate change.
The National Academy for Sciences, Engineering and Medicine released a report titled “Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and their Impacts,” which used attribution science to link greenhouse gas emissions from particular energy companies to local climate change events.
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