<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><a href="http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_23090628/klamath-scientists-get-apology-over-bias-claim">http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_23090628/klamath-scientists-get-apology-over-bias-claim</a> </div><div><br></div><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="regionParent" border="0" style="overflow-x: visible !important; width: 1000px; border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="region2" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; 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"><h1 id="articleTitle" class="articleTitle entry-title" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(4, 58, 94); font-weight: bold; font: normal normal bold 22px/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; ">Klamath scientists get apology over bias claim</h1><div id="articleByline" class="articleByline" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-weight: bold; "><span class="author vcard" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="fn" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; 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font-size: 10px; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); ">Updated: 04/23/2013 04:00:19 PM PDT</div><br><span fd-type="start" fd-id="default" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></span><div class="articlePositionHeader" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; text-align: center; "></div><span fd-type="end" fd-id="default" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></span><div class="entry-content" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; 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padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">In an agreement with the union representing the scientists, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation regional director, David Murillo, apologized and rescinded the letter that raised the bias issue.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The whistleblower protection organization Public Employees for Environmental Ethics had filed a formal complaint over the treatment of the scientists in the bureau's Klamath Falls office with the Interior Department.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">It alleged that area manager Jason Phillips took steps to transfer the scientists and assign their work to another agency because he felt others viewed the research as biased in favor the bureau.<br style="clear: both; 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