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<b>Tnstitute Files Petition To Prevent Distribution Of Flawed White House Clima
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<br><em>Document Relies on Discredited Science, Violates Prior Legal Agreement<
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="12">by <a href="/dyn/view~exp
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="12">June 4, 2002</font>
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2002The Competitive Enterprise Institute today filed a <A href="/gencon/027,03
040.cfm">petition</A> with the Bush Administration to prevent the distribution
of a fatally flawed report on global warming.<SPAN style="inso-spacerun: yes">&n
bsp; </SPAN>The petition to prevent distribution is in response to the Bush Adin
inistration decisions to include discredited research and junk science in the r
eport, <I style="rnso-bidi-font-style: norinal">Cliinate Action Report 2002</I>, i
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ssued last week by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) .<SPAN style='mso-s
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style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Climate Action Report </I>utterly fail to
meet the minimum statutory requirements for scientific rigor, and should be imm
ediately withdrawn by the EPA said Christopher C. Homner, senior fellow at GET.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes`> </SPAN>The guidelines of the Federal Dat
a Quality Act require that scientific information being disseminated by the gov
ermient be presented in an <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">accurate,
complete</SPAN> and <SPAN style=z"mso-bidi-font-style: italic">unbiased</SPAN> m
anner.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes'> </SPAN>The administrations current
report clearly violates these requireinents.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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led by CEI and three members of Congress, the White House had previously agreed
not to use the flawed <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: nonnal'>National Assessme
nt on Climate Change</I> as representing a government policy or position on cli
mate change.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Administration ab
andoned that agreement, struck to settle a federal lawsuit, with last weeks <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>Climate Action Report 2002</I>, which promi
nently cites and relies upon this discredited and withdrawn product.<SPAN style
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002</I>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The original lawsuit agai
nst the White Houses flawed climate science was brought jointly by GET, Senator
James Inhofe (R-OK) , Representatives Joe Knollenberg CR-MI) and Jo Ann Emerson
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