President-elect Joe Biden is being urged to to issue a raft of executive orders during his first 100 days to confront climate change and reinvigorate science across the federal government. The Center for American Progress, a leading liberal think tank in Washington with deep ties to Democratic policymakers, put out a blueprint Tuesday for protecting climate researchers and restoring scientific integrity in the federal government after four years of the Trump administration minimizing or, in some cases, firing experts on global warming, the coronavirus pandemic and other urgent research. “There has been an unprecedented assault on science during the Trump administration, most obviously to the American public in the context of covid-19,” John Podesta, a former White House aide who oversaw President Barack Obama’s climate and energy policy and who co-wrote the report, said in an interview. “But where they’ve been most aggressive is across all the agencies that […]