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).
In the mid to late 80s into the early 90s, the States were able to wrestle authority to regulate away from EPA. Not on everything, but most things. The main argument behind this was that the States wanted to solve problems and EPA only wanted to control things. A second argument was that the states would have the leeway to use whatever means they wanted to conform to the regs, whereas EPA did not have to consider things like economic impact.
During the 90s when the non-point regs were being worked up, regulation authority was given to the states.
Although the states decide how to meet the standards, EPA still sets those standards.
I'll Second That!
(Thanks for the Ping)
There is no way Bush knew the details of this. Damage control happens very rarely in W's administration. There is a reason: People get their head nanded to them on a platter, and the firings go all the way down.
I sincerely believe that Bush did not know of this. Of all the things on his plate, this is about number 53. He trusts his chain of command to implement his policies. He has to.
This was one thas slipped through the cracks, and somebody is going to get fired fast.
A lesson learned for the rest of the happy face kool aid drinkers still there in the underground WH.
You have to break eggs to make an omlette. Time for serious egg breaking.
I'll second that.
EPA persists in producing these garbage reports.
You are correct
The EPA should not exist!!!
psssst, Someone be sure to tell Bush also.
I think Rush's analysis today of Bush's strategy is dead on:
"The White House thinks their strategy is working like a charm and, really, who could argue with them? Their strategy is not to really spell out their own agenda and fight for it no matter what. Their strategy is to advance a centrist agenda that consists of a sizable percentage of the left's agenda, issue by issue. In the process, they're picking off Democrat votes. They're doing two things. They're denying Democrats issues to run on, and at the same time giving specific members of the Democrat coalition reasons to vote for Bush or against the Democrat candidates. The way they're looking at it, it's working."
I wish the worst possible day for that clymer Whitman. She should be given five minutes to clear out her office. This was a clear end-around of Bush. She should be history. Let's see.
If Bush really wants to do something good, he should aggressively correct this difficulty.
This is one of the most outrageous examples of cabinet-level insubordination that I have ever heard about. Time for Bush to clean house, starting with that clymer, democrat wannabe Whitman. No way she didn't authorize the release of this report. Send her back to the NJ Pine Barrens, where she belongs.
The dim holdovers. They certainly play the game for keeps. Time for Bush to get serious, else they will cut his legs out from under him. He has to realize how truly unscrupulous and vicious they are. Play for blood.
On the other hand, I'll bet she stays right where she is. One thing that Bush is good at (better than conservatives would like) is not giving the liberals a target to shoot at. Firing Whitman would be the shot heard round the eco-terrorist world.
Actually, it would be good if the rules applied to people hired by both parties. You could end up with the same result 10 to 12 years down the road with repubie bureaucrats.
The unions would fight it down to their last penny in court battles. That is why we would need some conservative judges down the road to say no to the unions and yes to their bosses the American Tax payers. If the federal unions used most of their funds fighting this, then they would not have as much money to donate to the rats.
These people are arrogant and operate as if they were the elected people. It is time to end that arrogance.
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