After nearly six months of scrutiny, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) announced in a press release on Friday that it is temporarily removing the controversial chapter on climate science from the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, while it investigates the processes used to develop the chapter.

The “processes” in question allowed the chapter to be written and reviewed by climate litigation supporters, including at least one attorney who represents states and local governments in climate lawsuits against energy companies – a clear violation of the NAS’s own conflict of interest policies.

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