United States President Donald Trump is allegedly planning to reform the way the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses science.
Recently, the Trump administration formulated a new energy policy that calls for the EPA to put a halt to its climate change activism, and instead make clean air and water its primary focus.
That policy document did not mention global warming at all. Neither do all the other posts on the Trump administration website.
Now, that same approach to ignoring climate change appears to have been carried on to how the EPA uses science, with a new document from the Trump administration saying that the government will seek to regulate how the environmental watchdog uses information.
"Unless major reforms of the agency's use of science and economics are achieved, EPA will be able to return to its bad old ways as soon as an establishment administration takes office," the document reads.
It is not yet clear what the proposed reforms entail, or what the reference to "bad old ways" implies.
The reference could be alluding to climate change that the agency would focus on.
The EPA regularly publishes detailed data and information on climate change and its effects on the planet.
The agency also publishes papers on activities and issues that could lead to climate change as well as methods to study greenhouse gas emissions.
Greenhouse gas emissions have been blamed for climate change and global warming.
The Trump administration has declared its intention to move away from any climate-focused work.