EPA E-Mail Concludes Global Warming Endangers Public Health, Senator Says

[DogPoundPup]

Source: Washington Post

Under a subpoena threat from Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the Environmental Protection Agency late Wednesday sent the panel a copy of its Dec. 5 proposal to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act -- as a brief loan.

Three Senate Democrats -- Boxer, Benjamin L. Cardin (Md.) and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) -- huddled together with their aides to review the documents, which were e-mailed to the White House Office of Management and Budget last year in response to a 2007 Supreme Court decision on the matter. The senators had to return the document after reading it.

The White House never opened the document and instructed EPA to retract it. Instead, EPA administrator Stephen L. Johnson backed away from the conclusions that he and his staff had reached and last week issued an "advanced notice of proposed rulemaking" that invited public comment on the question of whether to regulate emissions linked to global warming. It took no stand on the question the court had asked it to address: whether global warming poses a threat to human health or public welfare.

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[Double T]

1. Another bushco out of touch with reality issue............

Not to worry, global warming will lead to the extinction of most life on this planet; no life, no threat, no problem.

[Lint Head]

2. That's what Bush is trying to do. Eliminate the public so

he can have the world to himself. :dem:

[paparush]

3. Bush's Great Wall of Denial

Never opened the document...GOTT ALMIGHTY.

Tip #74 in the Bush Governance Playbook

When a report contains *ahem* facts, might possibly shed light on your crimes -

A. Have your crack legal team redact and or rewrite the report using language favorable to the Unary Eexecutive and his Oil Cronies (tm).

B. Slander, liable, and smear the report's author; PhD be damned.

C. Stop funding the report itself and pretend that it never existed in the first place.

D. Bury the report, lose the emails, burn the office.

E. Shoot the messenger (no, really).