Barton: EPA Says Full Speed Ahead as E-mails Say ‘Wait A Minute’
CO2 Endangerment Finding
WASHINGTON - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Joe Barton, R-Texas, today made the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it has finalized the endangerment finding:
"When the scientists whose work is the bedrock for our global warming policy use words like ‘travesty' and ‘trick' to describe their actions, and banter about how they'll blackball professional journals and delete evidence, it's time to slow down and consider what we're doing, not sound the charge. Regrettably, good sense got run over today when EPA hit the gas instead of tapping the brakes.
"It seems likely that the Obama administration decided to go ahead with plans to outlaw carbon dioxide today in order to make the president's policies look good in advance of his visit to the Copenhagen conference rather than to advance any public good in America. Undeniably, however, the candid e-mails that EPA's allies in the global warming community are defending as ‘stolen' and misunderstood paint a picture of conniving by previously respected researchers who now seem more engrossed by public relations than science.
"Today's EPA action mimics the emails in one respect: It demonstrates that public relations priorities rather than straightforward science are driving U.S. policymaking on global warming. Everybody also understands that the endangerment finding also is supposed to prod Congress into resuscitating cap-and-trade legislation that is dying from overexposure to public scrutiny.
"Unfortunately, the administration's response to the e-mails is the same as it's been to most other evidence that its climate policy might be on the wrong track: Nothing to see here, move along, move along."
Courtesy: Energy & Commerce Committee Republicans
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