White House climate and environment adviser scrutinized for possible ethics violations
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Fox News exclusively obtained letters sent by the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) founder Tom Jones to the White House and National Academies of Science (NAS) regarding Office of Science and Technology Policy climate and environment deputy director Jane Lubchenco.
The letters cite Dr. Lubchenco’s "conflict of interest violations" involved in an October retraction of an article, "A global network of marine protected areas for food," from the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science (PNAS), of which the White House official had been an editor during the peer-review process.
According to AAF, Dr. Lubchenco's alleged conflict of interest violations when reviewing the paper include having "been a co-author with many of the authors of that paper previously [and] collaborating with one author over a dozen times…having served as the PhD. Advisor for one of the authors of the paper…and most shockingly being the sister-in-law to one of the authors."