'Leftist' taxpayer-funded academy sparks backlash after moving against Trump's rollback of key regulation

FIRST ON FOX: The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — a largely taxpayer-funded body that has taken in hundreds of millions in federal dollars — is facing pushback for fast-tracking a climate review that critics say is an attempt to undermine the Trump administration's energy agenda.

Earlier this month, Politico reported that NASEM is using "internal funding" to pay for a review that will be released in September in order to "inform" the Environmental Protection Agency's move to rescind the Obama-era greenhouse gas endangerment finding, a cornerstone of climate regulation that conservatives say has strangled American energy production.

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