(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt has long insisted it is difficult for scientists to precisely measure the extent to which humans cause climate change. Now EPA's regional staff engaging with local communities and Native American tribes have been instructed to push the same message too. This week, EPA staffers received an email instructing them to underscore the uncertainties about how human activity contributes to climate change. Pruitt also has pushed for a government-sponsored exercise to scrutinize climate science, but the White House reportedly nixed the idea. “The operators of the Chinese space lab, Tiangong-1, lost contact with it back in 2016,” The Post’s Angela Fritz reports.

Source: Washington Post March 29, 2018 12:45 UTC