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How Shoddy Science Almost Led One Agency to Use Flawed Map in Keystone XL Review

2013-08-09 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Greenwire: A year ago, the Fish and Wildlife Service was poised to use a scientifically flawed range map for the American burying beetle during a preliminary assessment of the Keystone XL pipeline's effect on the endangered insect. The map would have shrunk the insect's range by 25 percent in Oklahoma, using spatial models -- rather than county lines -- to determine the habitat. But the map was never used in the Keystone assessment or any other agency action, thanks to a scientific integrity complaint. News...

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