Climate Action Report FOIA Email 3.18.03 (b)

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SUBJECT: : FW: Washington Times note on US Climate Action
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Do you have a copy of the letter referenced here? Kam
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"Navaro, Ann" <Ann.Navarogusdoj .gov>
03/18/2003 04:57:46 PM
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To: Kameran L. Onley/CEQ/EOP@EOP
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Subject: FW: Washington Times note on US Climate Action
to? Can we get a
Kameran - Do you know what lette this blurb is referring
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.washingtofltimes5 o/atoa/iblwa~t
Getting warmer?
about the
The Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington is abuzz
letter it received last week from the Office of White House Counsel, its
subject man-made global warming - or lack thereof.
an
In the letter, the White House denied impropriety surrounding
submitted to the
Environmental Protection Agency "Climate Action Report"
man-made global
United Nations outlining U.S. positions on catastrophic
warming.
repackages
But the climate report, according to the CEI, basically
findings from the "National Assessment on Climate Change," a document
earlier disavowed by the Bush White House.
when -settling a
The administration distanced itself from the assessment
lawsuit filed by CEI counsel Christopher Homner on behalf of Republican
Jo Ann Emerson
lawmakers Sen. James Inhofe, Oklahoma Republican and Reps.
of Missouri and Joe Knollenberg of Michigan, among other parties.
was "not policy
The White House contended the global-warming assessment
positions or formal expressions of the U.S. government."
putting its stamp
But now the administration appears to have flip-flopped,
of approval on the latest climate report sent to the United Nations.
Sam's "spooky
Meanwhile, eleven state attorneys general have seized Uncle
tale," as the CEI counsel calls the report, "to file lawsuits demanding
given that the
the most expensive regulatory undertaking in U.S. history,
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