The Centers for Disease Control postponed a summit scheduled for next month on climate change and public health ahead of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, participants and the CDC confirmed Monday.
While the Trump administration did not explicitly ask for the move, one of the scheduled keynote speakers of the Climate and Health Summit believes the move was made with the new President’s position on climate change in mind. Trump has famously called climate change a “hoax,” though his Cabinet has attempted to strike a more moderate tone in confirmation hearings.
The CDC started to notify participants just before Christmas that the meeting was “postponed,” according
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