Posted on 04/01/2017 6:08:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's scientific integrity watchdog is reviewing whether EPA chief Scott Pruitt violated the agency's policies when he said in a television interview he does not believe carbon dioxide is driving global climate change, according to an email seen by Reuters on Friday.
Lawyers for environmental group the Sierra Club had asked the EPA's Office of Inspector General to check whether Pruitt violated policy when he told a CNBC interviewer on March 9, "I would not agree that it's a primary contributor to the global warming that we see."
The EPA Inspector General's office responded to the Sierra Club on Thursday in an email, saying it had referred the matter to the EPA's Scientific Integrity Officer, Francesca Grifo, for review.
"If after the SIO review, she concludes there is some aspect of the letter itself, or her findings or conclusions that she believes are appropriate for further consideration by the OIG, she will so notify the OIG," the email stated.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Abolish the EPA and its policies will be defunct.
“I believe XYX.”
“Oh, hang on a minute! You’ve violated our policies! We can’t have that!!”
Is this as real as UN Peacekeeper or liberal intellectual?
The primary driver is the sun.
“EPA scientific integrity office”? LOL! They actually “have” that? Kinda oxymoronic huh!
Is that a joke? We have an official U.S policy that say that CO2 is the primary contributor to global warming? What about the science? So because somebody wrote that in a policy document it's true? That is truly bizarre.
Now who is working for whom?Is The New Director of the E.P.A. the head of the agency or is the employee in the Scientific Integrity office?
Seems like the wagon pulling the horse here.
This country is toast. It is occupied with the dumbest people on earth.
Who does this “scientific integrity office” report to?
Ironically, the investigation into the potential violation of the EPA’s Scientific Integrity Policy is itself a slam-dunk violation of the EPA’s Scientific Integrity Policy.
Specifically, that would be “Welcome differing views and opinions on scientific and technical matters as a legitimate and necessary part of the scientific process.”
http://ethics.iit.edu/ecodes/node/5537
Also, the article’s central claim that “The EPA website says its scientific integrity policy requires EPA officials and staff to ensure the agency’s work respects the findings of the broader scientific community.”...
... doesn’t actually appear in the policy.
FAKE NEWS
The “FBI Integrity Office”.
Fire the “Scientific Integrity office”. Given the EPA’s actions since the 1990s, it’s anything but scientific, and has NO integrity.
Thanks.
No possibility of politics there. /S
I gather I’m not the only one who finds it disturbing that a quasi-scientific agency has a built in group that enforces orthodoxy..
They ought to be investigating the crap load of false papers their so called scientists have written
Fire em all
Obviously, this is an April Fool’s Day joke but who, exactly, is the fool here?
I know on one group within the EPA that I’d be chopping right sharpish, if I was running the show..
Isn’t Pruitt in charge of the dept?
Fire the EPA’s Office of Inspector General!
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