Former U.S. CDC officials including ex-director Susan Monarez testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions today, and delivered grave warnings about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda. Dr. Monarez stood by comments that she was fired because she refused the health secretary's demand that she agree in advance to approve changes to childhood vaccination recommendations. She also testified that Kennedy claimed none of the CDC's vaccine recommendations were backed by science and that the scientists at the agency were not good people. Here's more from @ArsTechnica.

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These young climate activists who won a landmark global warming trial against the state of Montana are trying to convince a federal judge to block President Donald Trump’s executive orders promoting fossil fuels. Read more from @AssociatedPress:

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In February, the Trump administration laid off many of the staff of the climate.gov website, which was the main platform for climate info in the U.S., and had around 15 million page views last year. Traffic is redirected from that site to an NOAA page. Now, some of that team is relaunching the site as climate.us. DW.com spoke with Rebecca Lindsey, former manager of climate.gov and a science journalist of many years, about what was scrubbed from her former site, and what she and her colleagues plan to do next.

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