Science Agency Eyes Climate Change Professor’s Use of Millions From Taxpayers
“The longstanding cozy relationship between [government] grant-makers and grantees makes them blind to even the most obvious conflict of interest
A federal science agency is “seriously” interested in reviewing tens of millions in taxpayer-funded grants awarded to a university professor who wants President Obama to prosecute those who don’t share the administration’s view that mankind is changing the world’s climate.
The National Science Foundation’s inspector general appears poised to look into Jagadish Shukla’s management of federal grant money, much of it from the science agency itself.
The science agency has its own rules and guidelines governing grants, which would be applicable to the millions Shukla, 71, received from the agency.
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