EPA cancels own scientists planned talks

The EPA under Scott Pruitt is slashing regulations and bans on dangerous chemicals, right and left.  He has abandoned the Clean Power Plan, and scrubbed the department web site of information helpful to state ecology programs.

Now it's widely reported that the EPA has, at the last minute, barred three of its own research scientists from delivering the talks they had planned to give last weekend at a conference highlighting New England's largest estuary, where temperatures have risen 3 degrees and water levels have risen 7 inches over the past century.

The scientists were reportedly going to discuss research evidence of climate change effects as a cause of these alarming increases.    But now our government is refusing to let them speak.  Please tell me how this differs from a totalitarian state.

Ralph