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Judge Orders EPA to Produce Science behind Pruitt’s Warming Claims
Asked about carbon dioxide and climate change on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” in 2017, EPA head Scott Pruitt said:
“I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.”
leading to a Freedom of Information Act request for the EPA studies backing his claim. Last Friday, Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the agency to comply.
E-mails reveal Trump’s EPA “beachhead” team planned to gather a group of researchers who claim humans are not the primary drivers of climate change as part of the effort to pull back the endangerment finding.
'We bring on contractor support ( Judith Curry’s group, supplemented by John Christy, Craig Idso, Roger Pielke, and others ) to formulate analysis of the science,'
Wrote team member David Schnare in the detailed plan.
Asked about carbon dioxide and climate change on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” in 2017, EPA head Scott Pruitt said:
“I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.”
leading to a Freedom of Information Act request for the EPA studies backing his claim. Last Friday, Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the agency to comply.
E-mails reveal Trump’s EPA “beachhead” team planned to gather a group of researchers who claim humans are not the primary drivers of climate change as part of the effort to pull back the endangerment finding.
'We bring on contractor support ( Judith Curry’s group, supplemented by John Christy, Craig Idso, Roger Pielke, and others ) to formulate analysis of the science,'Wrote team member David Schnare in the detailed plan.
