CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration may have shut down the government advisory committee on climate change started by President Barack Obama, but its members considered the work so important that they did not stop working. The Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment was created in 2015 by the Obama administration to help local leaders and policymakers figure out how to apply lessons from the National Climate Assessment. The latest version of that report, released in November, determined that climate change is already hurting the United States and that it could cost the economy hundreds of billions of dollars and will kill thousands of Americans. Trump allowed the charter of the advisory committee to expire in August 2017 after his administration showed concern about the political makeup of the 15-member panel…At the invitation of New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, most of the members of the committee reconvened and became the Science to Climate Action Network, also known as SCAN. On Thursday [4-4-19], it released its report and recommendations to help policymakers and community leaders better tackle the daunting problems brought by climate change.”
–Jen Christensen, “Trump disbanded it, but climate change panel regroups to release its report,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, April 4, 2019 5:31 am