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"The Environmental Protection Agency said it would stop updating research that
hundreds of companies use to calculate their greenhouse gas emissions after the
agency suspended the database’s creator because he had signed a letter
criticizing the Trump administration’s approach to scientific research.
The researcher, Wesley Ingwersen, is leaving the E.P.A. to pursue his work at
Stanford University. He was one of 139 E.P.A. employees suspended and
investigated by the agency after signing the June letter, which charged that
Mr. Trump’s policies “undermine the E.P.A. mission of protecting human health
and the environment.”
Dr. Ingwersen led work on a statistical model that combines environmental and
economic data to calculate the carbon footprints — what experts refer to as
emissions factors — of a range of goods and services, from making steel to
flying planes to growing apples. The open-source data sets help companies
understand the greenhouse gases generated by each step in their supply chains.
The database is the third most viewed of more than 281,000 federal data sets on
Data.gov, the government’s public data repository. An earlier version of the
database is among the top 10 most viewed. The data sets will remain publicly
available but will not be updated to reflect the current state of the economy,
rendering them less useful over time.
Dr. Ingwersen will move his work to Stanford through a consortium with two
private companies, which has pledged to continue updating the information and
making it free to the public."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
