Posted on 06/04/2002 2:18:54 PM PDT by ZGuy
Report Relying On Discredited Science Previously Disavowed As Official Policy
Washington, D.C.,
The Environmental Protection Agency’s latest report on global warming to the United Nations, Climate Action Report 2002, violates an agreement between the White House and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, three members of Congress, and other non-profit advocacy groups, struck in settlement of a lawsuit. The report relies in part on the discredited National Assessment on Climate Change.
As a result of the lawsuit filed in October 2000, the Bush Administration ultimately agreed in September 2001 to withdraw the National Assessment and stated that its unlawfully produced conclusions are “not policy positions or official statements of the U.S. government.” EPA has ignored this agreement in issuing its report to the United Nations.
“Through Freedom of Information Act inquiries, we learned that the National Assessment was hurriedly slapped together in an incomplete and inaccurate form,” said Christopher C. Horner, CEI counsel who filed the lawsuit. “The current Climate Action Report inappropriately cites the disgraced National Assessment, in clear violation of the spirit and letter of our agreement with the White House in return for withdrawing our suit.”
Adds Myron Ebell, director of global warming policy at CEI: “The Administration has recognized that the National Assessment is the worst sort of junk science. For the EPA now to accept the National Assessment’s findings as valid undermines and contradicts President Bush’s global warming policies. The EPA needs to be told that the Clinton Administration is gone and Al Gore did not win the election.”
The lawsuit against the White House’s flawed climate science was brought jointly by CEI, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Representatives Joe Knollenberg (R-MI) and Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO), and other non-profit advocacy groups. CEI’s pleadings in the case can be found in the docket at the federal District Court for the District of Columbia (CV 00-02383).
Her defense of the First Amendment during the CFR debates was outstanding.
Setting aside the contents of the report for the moment, I note this is a rather stark example of an executive agency that appears not to be accountable to the executive.
If Bush really wants to do something good, he should aggressively correct this difficulty.
NO FLIPPIN WAY. Everyone at the EPA is not only a genius but they are 'invincible'.
Stupid dumbass idiots
I hope that it's Chritine Toad Whitman.
example of an executive agency that appears not to be accountable to the executive.
If Bush really wants to do something good, he should aggressively correct this difficulty.
The war could be used as a pro or a con toward that end. On the pro side, at this time we can't afford to have rouge agencies diverting attention and effort from the war so shape it up or ship it out. On the con side, those who will resist reform will waste time yelling about wasting time.
Wholesale house-cleaning is in order, damn the shrieks!
I hope that it's Chritine Toad Whitman.
I'll second that - I couldn't understand her selection in the first place!?
While I was responding to this thread I saw the "1 new message" and said to myself "Let me finish this and not get sidetracked".
Thanks for the pings!
Hmmmm. Could it be that W gave the socialist leftovers from the Clinton administration enough rope to hang themselves? I've heard that it is almost impossible to get fired from this government agency...But, if you violate a legal agreement? My guess is the finger pointing has already begun and the documents are being dusted for fingerprints...
Let the housekeeping begin!
Oh well, I guess they like having more egg on their face.
For that we can be truly grateful; in a capitalist society, they might have had to seek other employment.
EPA truely is a "monster". I'm not saying that they shouldn't exist - but they need to be slapped back into reality and dropped in size considerably. - IMHO
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