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White House science office faces lawsuit
The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is in court over its failure so far to put forward recommendations to ensure scientific integrity in government. It’s a discouraging development in a process that began with the rosy hopes raised by Barack Obama’s March 2009 memo promising to put sound science at the center of government policy-making. The memo required OSTP to deliver agency guidelines within 90 days. But 18 months later scientists are still waiting. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a Washington DC-based advocacy group, wants to know why, and sued OSTP on Tuesday in the
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