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EPA Global Warming Report Violates White House Agreement To Settle Lawsuit
Competitive Enterprise Institute ^ | June 3, 2002 | CEI Staff

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).


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: emerson; globalwarminghoax; inhofe; knollenberg; landgrab
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1 posted on 06/04/2002 2:18:55 PM PDT by ZGuy
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To: ZGuy
I got a feeling someone in EPA is having a bad day today.....
2 posted on 06/04/2002 2:22:48 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: ZGuy
Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO) bump.

Her defense of the First Amendment during the CFR debates was outstanding.

3 posted on 06/04/2002 2:25:43 PM PDT by toenail
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To: ZGuy
EPA needs to be told that the Clinton Administration is gone and Al Gore did not win the election

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.

4 posted on 06/04/2002 2:27:45 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: ZGuy
WHAT!? The EPA screwed Up..??

NO FLIPPIN WAY. Everyone at the EPA is not only a genius but they are 'invincible'.

Stupid dumbass idiots

5 posted on 06/04/2002 2:28:41 PM PDT by phasma proeliator
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To: anniegetyourgun
I got a feeling someone in EPA is having a bad day today.....

I hope that it's Chritine Toad Whitman.

6 posted on 06/04/2002 2:30:35 PM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
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To: anniegetyourgun;Free the USA; 4Freedom; Carry_Okie; Fish out of water; seamole...
ping
7 posted on 06/04/2002 2:35:10 PM PDT by madfly
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To: ZGuy
And the hits just keep on comin'.
8 posted on 06/04/2002 2:37:04 PM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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To: r9etb

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!

9 posted on 06/04/2002 2:38:05 PM PDT by StriperSniper
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
I got a feeling someone in EPA is having a bad day today.....

I hope that it's Chritine Toad Whitman.

I'll second that - I couldn't understand her selection in the first place!?

10 posted on 06/04/2002 2:39:00 PM PDT by facedown
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To: madfly
BTTT!!!!!
11 posted on 06/04/2002 2:39:49 PM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: phasma proeliator
NO FLIPPIN WAY. Everyone at the EPA is not only a genius but they are 'invincible'.

I have two chemist buddies that I went through undergraduate school with that
work for the EPA.
They are conservative types, honest to a fault about their chemical analysis work.

But over the last ten years, I can tell they've fallen into a bit of the EPA
"party line". Mind you, I'm glad they are there instead of the chem. grads from
some sort of liberal think tank like Harvard.

But there is a continual need for agencies like the EPA to scare us.
Otherwise, we might realize that we only need an EPA of about 1/4 the size of what it is today.
12 posted on 06/04/2002 2:39:50 PM PDT by VOA
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To: madfly
LOL!

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!

13 posted on 06/04/2002 2:40:54 PM PDT by StriperSniper
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To: Phi Kap Mom
ping! Looks as if Jim Inhofe is on the ball.
14 posted on 06/04/2002 2:42:07 PM PDT by Ole Okie
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To: ZGuy
“Through Freedom of Information Act inquiries, we learned that the National Assessment was hurriedly slapped together in an incomplete and inaccurate form.”

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!

15 posted on 06/04/2002 2:42:28 PM PDT by rohry
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To: ZGuy
Wow I wonder why the New York Times didn't report this. Oh that's right, then their fellow Bush bashers on FR would have egg on their face.

Oh well, I guess they like having more egg on their face.

16 posted on 06/04/2002 2:43:09 PM PDT by Dane
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To: ZGuy;Carry_Okie
I think your docket number was transposed CV 00-02383 = 002338?

Landmark Legal Foundation v. U.S. EPA

17 posted on 06/04/2002 2:43:58 PM PDT by snopercod
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To: ZGuy
None of the predators, scavengers, parasites, and/or any other members of the Great Circle of Life at the EPA will suffer any endangerment as a result of this debacle.

For that we can be truly grateful; in a capitalist society, they might have had to seek other employment.

18 posted on 06/04/2002 2:45:02 PM PDT by headsonpikes
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To: VOA
I have two very close friends who USED to work at EPA. The politics drove them into private business.

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

19 posted on 06/04/2002 2:45:37 PM PDT by phasma proeliator
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To: Ole Okie
If I have my wish, this will mean the end of Whitman at EPA! I do believe she released this report without thinking and it is time for her to go -- personally I think it was never time for her to be part of this Administration!
20 posted on 06/04/2002 2:45:53 PM PDT by PhiKapMom
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