POLITICO的一项调查发现，全国范围内有超过100份公开记录申请，要求获取气候科学家的文件。
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
保守派组织正在向公立大学提交数十份公开记录申请，要求获取研究气候变化的学者们的电子邮件、研究草稿、与律师事务所的往来信件及其他文件。
Conservative organizations are filing open records requests by the dozens at public universities, demanding emails, research drafts, correspondence with law firms and other documents from academics studying climate change.
目标对象及其盟友表示，这一切都是为了削弱气候研究在美国针对化石燃料公司的诉讼中所发挥的作用。
Targets and their allies say it’s all an effort to undermine the role climate research is playing in litigation against U.S. fossil fuel companies.
这是右翼团体数十年来旨在诋毁学者工作的最新策略，这些学者的研究可能会影响高风险气候案件中的法官和陪审团。如今，随着特朗普政府日益加大力度，试图阻止社区针对受极端天气影响的能源公司提起的数十起诉讼，这一策略正在加速推进。
It’s the latest strategy in a decades-long campaign by right-leaning groups to discredit scholars whose work could persuade judges and juries in the high-stakes climate cases. Now it’s gathering steam amid a growing push by the Trump administration to block dozens of lawsuits levied at energy companies by communities that were affected by extreme weather.
POLITICO的调查揭露了过去五年间，在全国19所公立大学提交的超过100份公开记录申请，针对至少30名研究人员。其中超过一半是在2024年11月唐纳德·特朗普总统连任后提交的。
A POLITICO investigation has uncovered more than 100 open records requests filed at 19 public universities across the country, targeting at least 30 researchers over the past five years. More than half have been filed since President Donald Trump’s reelection in November 2024.