New emails reveal that the Trump administration manipulated wildfire science to promote logging
The director of the US Geological Survey asked scientists to "gin up" emissions figures for him.
Mother Jones
The messaging plan was crafted in support of Donald Trump’s pro-industry arguments for harvesting more timber in California, which he says would thin forests and prevent fires—a point experts refute.
The emails show officials seeking to estimate the carbon emissions from devastating 2018 fires in California so they could compare them to the carbon footprint of the state’s electricity sector and then publish statements encouraging cutting down trees.