Fossil-Fuel Funded GOP Leaders Claim a Renowned Scientific Institution Has ‘Potential Conflicts of Interest’

Republican allies of the oil and gas industry question the objectivity of an independent report from the nation’s top science advisers on the harms of human-caused climate change.By Liza Gross Soon after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a plan to revoke its legal authority to regulate climate pollutants last summer, the nation’s most respected scientific organization fast-tracked a review of the latest evidence on whether greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare.