This email forwards a note about a letter received by the Competitive Enterprise Institute regarding the US government's position on climate change. Specifically, the letter from the White House denies claims of impropriety around a US climate report submitted to the UN. However, the climate report appears to reuse findings from an earlier assessment disavowed by the Bush administration. Some state attorneys general are using the climate report in lawsuits demanding expensive regulation to address climate change in the US. The email asks if the referenced letter can be obtained.

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CREATOR:"Navaro, Ann" <Ann.Navaro~usdoj.gov> C"Navaro, Ann" <Ann.Navaro~usdoj.gov>
CREATION DATE/TIME:18-MAR-2003 17:06:36.00
SUBJECT:: FW: Washington Times note on US Climate Action Report
TO:Kameran L. Onley ( CN=Kameran L. Onley/OU=CEQ/O=EOP@EOP [ CEQ I
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Kameran - Do you know what lette this blurb is referring to? Can we get a
copy of it? Thanks. Ann.
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From: Toth, Brian
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 4:52 PM
To: Navaro, Ann
Subject: Washington Times note on US Climate Action Report
From the Washington Times -
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/inbeltway.htm
Getting warmer?
The Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington is abuzz about the
letter it received last week from the Office of White House Counsel, its
subject man-made global warming - or lack thereof.
In the letter, the White House denied impropriety surrounding an
Environmental Protection Agency "Climate Action Report" submitted to the
United Nations outlining U.S. positions on catastrophic man-made global
warming.
But the climate report, according to the GEI, basically repackages
findings from the "National Assessment on Climate Change," a document
earlier disavowed by the Bush White House.
The administration distanced itself from the assessment when settling a
lawsuit filed by GET counsel Christopher Homner on behalf of Republican
lawmakers Sen. James Inhofe, Oklahoma Republican and Reps. Jo Ann Emerson
of Missouri and Joe Knollenberg of Michigan, among other parties.
The White House contended the global-warming assessment was "not policy
positions or formal expressions of the U.S. government."
But now the administration appears to have flip-flopped, putting its stamp
of approval on the latest climate report sent to the United Nations.
Meanwhile, eleven state attorneys general have seized Uncle Sam's "spooky
tale," as the GET counsel calls the report, "to file lawsuits demanding
the most expensive regulatory undertaking in U.S. history, given that the
U.S. now 'admits' it.",
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