The document is an email exchange discussing a press release from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) alleging that the EPA's latest climate change report to the UN violates an agreement between the White House and CEI. The agreement settled a lawsuit brought by CEI and others over the National Climate Assessment. The press release states that the EPA report inappropriately cites the discredited National Assessment, which the Bush Administration had agreed to withdraw. It argues the EPA is ignoring the agreement by relying on the Assessment's findings.

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sure, whenever you want.
This is not an issue I'm familiar with.
Robert C. McNally
06/05/2002 08:21:27 AM
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To: Phil Cooney/CEQ/EOP@EOP, Rachel Brand
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Subject: Fw: CEI press release: EPA Climate Report Violates White
House Agreement to Settle Lawsuit
Phil and Rachel, FYI. Could we discuss?
Bob
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CET press release: EPA Climate Report Violates White House Agreement to
Settle Lawsuit
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To: Myron Ebell
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Subject: GET press release; EPA Climate Report Violates White House
Agreement to Settle Lawsuit
Contact:
Richard Morrison, 202.331.1010
EPA Global Warming Report Violates White House Agreement To Settle Lawsuit
Report Relies on Discredited Science Previously Disavowed as Official
Policy
Washington, D.C., June 3, 2002-The Environmental Protection Agency's
latest report on global warming to the United Nations, Climate Action
Report 2002, violates an agreement between the White House and the
Competitive Enterprise Institute, three members of Congress, and other
non-profit advocacy groups, struck in settlement of a lawsuit. The report
relies in part on the discredited National Assessment on Climate Change.
As a result of the lawsuit filed in October 2000, the Bush Administration
ultimately agreed in September 2001 to withdraw the National Assessment
and stated that its unlawfully produced conclusions are "not policy
positions or official statements of the U.S. government." EPA has ignored
this agreement in issuing its report to the United Nations.
"Through Freedom of Information Act inquiries, we learned that the
National Assessment was hurriedly slapped together in an incomplete and
inaccurate form," said Christopher C. Horner, CEI counsel who filed the
lawsuit. "The current Climate Action Report inappropriately cites the
disgraced National Assessment, in clear violation of the spirit and letter
of our agreement with the White House in return for withdrawing our suit."
Adds Myron Ebell, director of global warming policy at CET: "The
Administration has recognized that the National Assessment is the worst
sort of junk science. For the EPA now to accept the National Assessment's
findings as valid undermines and contradicts President Bush's global
warming policies. The EPA needs to be told that the Clinton
Administration is gone and Al Gore did not win the election."
The lawsuit against the White House's flawed climate science was brought
jointly by CET, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) , Representatives Joe
Knollenberg (R-MI) and Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO), and other non-profit
advocacy groups. CEI's pleadings in the case can be found in the docket
at the federal District Court for the District of Columbia (CV 00-02383).
CET is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to the
principles of free enterprise and limited government. For more
information about CET, visit our website at <www.cei.org>.
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<DIV style="FONT: lOpt anial">----Original Message ---
<DIV style="1BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"'><B>From:</B> <A
title=mebellt~cei.org href="mailto:mebell~cei.org">Myron Ebell•/A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=mebell~cei.org href="mailto:mebell@cei.org">Myron
Ebell</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, June 03, 2002 2:19 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> CEI press release: EPA Climate Report Violates White House
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<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Contact:&flbsp;&flbsp; </FONT><cBR><FONT
face="Times New Roman",>Richard Morrison, 202.331.1010</FONT> </P><BR>
<P align=center><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=5>EPA Global Warming Repor
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Violates White House Agreement To Settle Lawsuit</FONT></B></P>
<P align=center><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>Report Relies on
Discredited Science Previo'usly Disavowed as Official Policy </PONT></I></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Washington, D.C., June 3, 2002-The Environmenta
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Protection Agencys latest report on global warming to the United
Nations,</FONT><I> <FONT face="Times New Roman">Climate Action Report
2002</FONT></I><FONT face="Times New Roman">, violates an agreement between the
White House and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, three members of Congress
and other non-profit advocacy groups, struck in settlement of a lawsuit.&nbsp;
The report relies in part on the discredited</FONT><I> <FONT
face="Times New Roman">National Assessment on Climate Change.</FONT></I></P>
<P>•FONT face="Times New Roman">As a result of the lawsuit filed in October
2000, the Bush Administration ultimately agreed in September 2001 to withdraw
the</FONT><I> <FONT face="Times New Roman">National Assessment</FONT></T><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> and stated that its unlawfully produced conclusions are
not policy positions or official statements of the U.S. government.&nbsp; EPA
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has ignored this agreement in issuing its report to the United Nations.&nbsp;
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<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">,Through Freedom of Information Act inquiries,
we learned that the</FONT><I> <FONT face="Times New Roman`>National
Assessmentpc/FONT></I><FONT face="Tirnes New Roman"> was hurriedly slapped
together in an incomplete and inaccurate form, said Christopher C. Harner, CE1
counsel who filed the lawsuit.&nbsp; The current</FONT><I> <FONT
face="Times New Roman">Climate Action Report</FONT></I><PFONT
face="Times New Roman"> inappropriately cites the disgraced</FONT><I> <FONT
face="Times New Roman"!>National Assessment</FONT></I><FONT
face="Times New Roman'>, in clear violation of the spirit and letter of our
agreement with the White House in return for withdrawing our suit.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Adds Myron Ebell, director of global warming
policy at CEI:&~nbsp; The Administration has recognized that the</FONT><I> <FONT
faces"Times New Roman">National Assessment</FONT></I> <FONT
face="Times New Roman">is the worst sort of junk science.&nbsp; For the EPA now
to accept the</FONT><I> <FONT face="Times New Roman">National
Assessments</FONT></I><FONT face="Times New Roman'> findings as valid
undermines and contradicts President flushs global warming policies.&nbsp; The
EPA needs to be told that the Clinton Administration is gone and Al Gore did no
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win the election.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=-'Times New Roman">The lawsuit against the White Houses flawed
climate science was brought jointly by Cr1, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK),
Representatives Joe Knollenberg CR-MI) and Jo Ann Emerson CR-MO), and other
non-profit advocacy groups.&nbsp; CEIS pleadings in the case can be found in
the docket at the federal District Court for the District of Columbia CCV
00-02383) .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy
group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited
governmnent.&nbsp; For more information about CE1, visit our website at<U>
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color=#OOO0ff>&lt;www.cei .org&gt;</FONT></U><FONT
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