The Portland Public Schools board voted last week to ban any materials that cast doubt on climate change, the Portland Tribune reported. The shuttering follows three consecutive years of budget cuts for the program, which was established eight years ago to conduct climate change research. The Portland decision comes weeks after Yale University announced its climate change program will close at the end of June. "I don't want people to think that EPA is just about big rules, or that climate change is just about polar bears," EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said. According to the resolution passed May 17, the school district must remove any textbooks and other materials that suggest climate change is not occurring or that says human beings are not responsible for it.

Source: Fox News May 22, 2016 09:41 UTC