This email chain discusses a letter from the White House Counsel's office regarding the US Climate Action Report submitted to the UN. It notes that the Climate Action Report appears to repackage findings from an earlier National Assessment on Climate Change that the Bush White House had disavowed. Some are questioning whether the administration has flip-flopped by putting its stamp of approval on the latest climate report sent to the UN.

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CREATOR:Noel J. Francisco ( CN=Noel J. Francisco/OU=WHO/O=EOP E WH-O I
CREATION DATE/TIME:l8-MAR-2003 17:51:13.00
SUBJECT:: FW: Washington Times note on US Climate Action Report
TO:Theodore W. Ullyot ( CN=Theodore W. Ullyot/OU=WHO/O=EOP@EOP I WHO
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CC:Kyle SampsonC CN=Kyle Sampson/OU=WHO/O=EOP@EOP [ WHO
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Ted -- Would you shoot Phil the letter? Thanks, Noel
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Phil Cooney
03/18/2003 05:46:12 PM
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To: Kyle Sampson/WHO/EOP@EOP, Noel J. FranciSCO/WHO/EOP@EOP
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Subject: FW: Washington Times note on US Climate Action Report
Kyle and Noel, Does either of you know what letter (reportedly from WH-
Counsel's office) the Times is referring to? thanks, Phil
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Karneran L. Onley
03/18/2003 05:24:11 PM
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To: Phil Cooney/CEQ/EOP@EOP
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Subject: FW: Washington Times note on US Climate Action Report
Do you have a copy of the letter referenced here? Kam
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"Navaro, Ann" <Ann.Navaro~usdoj .gov>
03/18/2003 04:57:46 PM
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To: Kameran L. Onley/CEQ/EOP@EOP
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Subject: EW: Washington Times note on US Climate Action Report
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 CEI, 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 CET counsel Christopher Horner 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 CET 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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