The researchers behind a massive report on the state of nature in America are seeking to release it despite President Trump’s cancellation of the project, one of the report’s authors told The Hill.

Trump canceled the National Nature Assessment, which began its work under the Biden administration, shortly after he took office in January. It would have been due earlier this week.

“The idea was that we don't have a good national inventory of the state of nature,” Howard Frumkin, a professor emeritus of environmental science at the University of Washington School of Public Health who was lead author on the report’s chapter on the relationship between nature and public health, told The Hill in an interview.

“We know a lot about our economy, we know a lot about our transportation infrastructure and our kids’ academic achievement, but nature is such an important basis for the economy and for health and well-being, for cultural benefits, but we never have had a good inventory of the state of nature across the country, of trends that may be affecting it,........

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