Reshape the government's climate change research program
What the document says“The President should also issue an executive order to reshape the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and related climate change research programs.”
The chapter states that the research program's products, such as the National Climate Assessment, narrow the legally proper options available in presidential decisions and agency rulemakings, and can frustrate the government's defense of litigation. It says the process should include diverse viewpoints, that OSTP and OMB should jointly assess the independence of the contractors used, and that related offices should be confined to a more limited advisory role.
What the document actually says“The President should also issue an executive order to reshape the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and related climate change research programs.”
The president should sign an order. It would change how the government studies climate change.
The government runs a big climate research program. It writes reports on what is happening. The book says those reports limit what the president can then do. It wants the program changed by order.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Executive Order 14177 reconstitutes the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, which is one of the science bodies in the Executive Office of the President that the surrounding passage would confine to an advisory role, and it states that ideological agendas have distorted scientific work. It does not answer the proposal: it never mentions the Global Change Research Program, the National Climate Assessment or the Global Change Research Act of 1990, and it changes nothing about how assessments are produced or who is contracted to produce them. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.