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The Trump administration has frozen grants and contracts by the Environmental Protection Agency, according to ProPublica, and blocked employees from providing updates on this change via social media. This could have big effects on the agency's budget and severely undercut its efforts.
In an email obtained by ProPublica, one EPA contractor writes that: "The new EPA administration has asked that all contract and grant awards be temporarily suspended, effective immediately. Until we receive further clarification, this includes task orders and work assignments."
Also, employees have been banned from providing updates to reporters or on social media. The internal memo specifies that no press releases will go out to external audiences, there will be "no blog messages" and media requests will be carefully screened. (Interestingly, the Department of Energy, a fellow federal agency, recently released new guidelines that specifically protects contractors and ensures that they can state their personal opinions.)
Source: The Verge
takyon: Here are some related stories happening at the same time:
USDA scrambles to ease concerns after researchers were ordered to stop publishing news releases, other documents
USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit
Commerce nominee Ross promises to protect "peer-reviewed research" at NOAA
CDC postpones climate conference ahead of Trump takeover
Badlands National Park goes rogue with climate-change tweets
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by khallow on Wednesday January 25 2017, @08:54PM
He apparently is unaware that you can only cull that which is live, and research is only live when it's being done.
You had no trouble understanding me. I doubt anyone else did either.
Can you please include some terminal "but I guess that's just the typical gibberish to be expected from you, khallow" in your responses, so that those of us who have him foed down by -5 don't feel tempted to pull up your post's parent in case it might have some useful content.
Let us recall why FatPhil is so butthurt here. He "foed" me as a result of this thread [soylentnews.org]. At one point, I pulled out my usual retort to chicken littles who insist the sky is falling economically.
I'll just note here that global income [voxeu.org] is increasing above inflation at a substantial rate (two thirds of humanity grew their income by 30% or more over a recent 20 year period, the median global income rose by more than 60%). The world is nothing like your narrative.
After a back and forth, we had this insightful reply:
Thus spake someone with absolutely no understanding of Simpson's Paradox.
"Simpson's paradox" is just a fancy label for the observation that what happens to a whole can be very different than what happens to parts of the whole. FatPhil from now on stone-walls, refusing to explain that even a little while I pointed out that we were speaking of everyone all along and my above link was an observation about everyone.
You're looking at aggregate data rather than the individual components. *Textbook* Simpsons.
I've shown you your mistake several times, please stop digging.
and finally
NO, BECAUSE OF SIMPSON'S PARADOX.
I SAID YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT RIGHT AT THE OUTSET, DIDN'T I, AND YOU'VE PROVED THAT BEYOND ANY SHADOW OF A DOUBT.
YOU ARE STUPID, AND YOU REFUSE TO LEARN.
*PLONK*
He officially surrendered at this point and "foed" me. I hope this dose of internet drama makes your day.
Now, he's complaining because I might have posted something interesting? Not my problem. SoylentNews provides us with the tools [soylentnews.org] to avoid reading posts from me. Use the tools.