IT’S early days, but it looks like good news for science and the environment as jobs are handed out in the wake of the 4 November US election.
In Congress, representative Henry Waxman of California has ousted his fellow Democrat John Dingell as chair of the influential House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Dingell has frustrated efforts to impose strict emission standards on US car makers and electricity companies. Waxman, by contrast, backs tough action to combat global warming.
Waxman also supported the resistance to President George W. Bush’s so-called “war on science”, holding hearings into alleged political interference…
