House committee hits EPA with subpoenas | TheHill

The House Science Committee has formally issued two subpoenas to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), demanding answers on various scientific rulemakings that lawmakers argue have been unnecessarily delayed. The Committee on Science, Space and Technology sent the subpoenas to EPA late Friday afternoon, fulfilling a months' long threat to force the hand of the agency to respond to oversight document requests. The move is the latest escalation of a brewing conflict between the agency and the congressional committee, chaired by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), that oversees it.....
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/470709-house-dem-committee-hits-epa-with-subpoena

Trump pushed staff to correct NOAA tweet that contradicted his inaccurate Dorian claim - The Washington Post

The House Science Committee launched a probe into the Commerce Department's role, and any White House role, in getting NOAA to back President Trump's false assertions about Hurricane Dorian's predicted track....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/09/11/lawmakers-commerce-department-launch-investigations-into-noaas-decision-back-presidents-trump-over-forecasters/

All eyes on top Democrat to bring science back to science committee - The Hill

Environmentalists are hoping that Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) will bring science back to the House science committee when she takes over as chair in the next Congress.....
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/415589-all-eyes-on-top-democrat-to-bring-science-back-to-science-committee

These Climate Scientists Think House Science Chair Lamar Smith Has No Idea What He's Talking About

Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, the Republican chair of the House Science Committee who also happens to believe global warming might actually be a really good thing, flew off the hook this week. The cause? The New York Times publicized a draft version of a federal scientific report which climate scientists worry Donald Trump’s administration is preparing to suppress or doctor.

In a statement, Smith argued the “alarmist media is at it again” and tried to one-up the thousands of studies referred to in the report, suggesting he knows better than the tens of thousands of scientists who wrote them....
https://gizmodo.com/these-climate-scientists-think-house-science-chair-lama-1797703686

House Science Committee Democrats ask Trump to stop swallowing climate hoaxes -- ThinkProgress.org

Democratic members of the House Science Committee, led by Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Thursday, voicing their opposition to reports that his staff has been feeding him fake news on climate change — and noting that he still has yet to appoint a science adviser to his administration....
https://thinkprogress.org/house-science-committee-trump-fake-news-5ef5ef0ccc0c

Don Beyer wants to make the House Science Committee great again

The Virginia representative campaigned with climate change at the center — now he’s trying to take climate action to Congress....
https://thinkprogress.org/don-beyer-house-science-committee-climate-change-26977963f008

Republican sceptics call climate change hearing that massively backfires as expert witness calls for carbon tax -- The Independent

It was compared to holding a hearing about whether "the Earth orbits the Sun"....
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/republicans-climate-change-hearing-backfires-expert-witness-carbon-tax-a7658766.html

House Republicans vote to curb the EPA’s use of science

Critics say the HONEST Act would seriously chill science....
https://thinkprogress.org/house-honest-act-limit-epa-science-244a132bdee

House Science Committee Calls on Alt-Science to Drive Policy

Today's hearing will try to reframe climate change as an unsettled debate, allowing skeptics and industry to influence regulations and research funding...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/house-science-committee-calls-on-alt-science-to-drive-policy/