Story highlights Michael Brune: This assault on scientific truth must not go unansweredAmericans faced by an unprecedentedly anti-environmental Congress and an administration that is out to gut the EPA, he saysMichael Brune is the executive director of the Sierra Club. (CNN) It's no surprise that candidate Donald Trump's disdain for the truth has carried over into his presidency, with its Orwellian embrace of "alternative facts." Reports that the administration would demand that the EPA delete all information about climate change from its website were rightly met with outrage. The Trump administration's assaults on science are as brazen as they are unconscionable, and they must not go unanswered. Some brave and principled scientists and researchers at the EPA, and in other parts of our government, will surely resist , but the burden of defending respect for the truth should not rest solely on their shoulders.

Source: CNN January 27, 2017 16:24 UTC