Cheney wanted cuts in climate testimony - AP

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Source: Associated Press

Cheney wanted cuts in climate testimony

By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
AP foreign, Tuesday July 8 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney's office
pushed for major deletions in congressional testimony on
the public health consequences of climate change, fearing
the presentation by a leading health official might make
it harder to avoid regulating greenhouse gases, a former
EPA officials maintains.

When six pages were cut from testimony on climate change
and public health by the head of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention last October, the White House
insisted the changes were made because of reservations
raised by White House advisers about the accuracy of the
science.

But Jason K. Burnett, until last month the senior adviser
on climate change to Environmental Protection Agency
Administrator Stephen Johnson, says that Cheney's office
was deeply involved in getting nearly half of the CDC's
original draft testimony removed.

“The Council on Environmental Quality and the office of
the vice president were seeking deletions to the CDC
testimony (concerning) ... any discussions of the human
health consequences of climate change,” Burnett has told
the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

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1. no surprise but didn't think it came directly from Cheney

good to see the truth come out. 6 pages, wow! Bushistas have regularly struck out any words, paragraphs, now whole blocks of reports that indicate any harm done from climate change. Muzzling scientists, their favorite pastime.