{"id":3592,"date":"2011-12-22T14:08:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T20:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=3592"},"modified":"2011-12-22T15:01:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T21:01:27","slug":"agreement-reached-between-texas-government-and-rice-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/12\/22\/agreement-reached-between-texas-government-and-rice-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Agreement Reached Between Texas Government and Rice Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by flickr user OneEighteen\/Creative Commons<\/p>

A tanker cruises across Galveston Bay.<\/p><\/div>\n

In October, word got out of a scuffle between scientists and the Texas government. On one side, Rice University oceanographer John Anderson<\/a>, who submitted an article on rising sea levels for a report to be published by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality<\/a> (TCEQ) on Galveston\u00a0Bay. On the other, the TCEQ itself, which didn’t like some of what Anderson had to say, and excised his references to climate change and human impacts.<\/p>\n

An agreement has now been reached between the two parties that will result in Anderson’s article being published in the commission’s report. <\/p>\n

It’s not immediately clear what the compromises are between Anderson and the commission due to a confidentiality agreement.<\/p>\n

After the TCEQ excised Anderson’s references to climate change in October, he released the edits<\/a> the commission made to his article, and that led to the commission removing his article from the report entirely. The commission was criticized for silencing scientific warnings on climate change<\/a>, and an online petition was taken up by a fifth-grade teacher in San Antonio at change.org, asking the commission to release the un-edited version of Anderson’s article. Commission spokesperson, Andy Saenz, said at the time, “why would we include things we don’t agree with? That’s ridiculous.<\/a>“<\/p>\n

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