JUST IN: Trump ends key climate change advisory committee: report https://t.co/6fwdf75fqv pic.twitter.com/PEjdOVZ1FC

— The Hill (@thehill) August 20, 2017

“… The panel — the Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment — is a 15-member panel made up of academics, corporate employees and local officials charged with simplifying findings from the National Climate Assessment for those inside and outside of the federal government.

The group worked on the National Climate Assessment, the mandated quadrennial report that was leaked last month as a draft. The report is due to be released in 2018, but The New York Times reported that scientists working on it worried the Trump administration would try to bury some or all of its conclusions and may have leaked it for that reason.”