The document summarizes a press release from the Competitive Enterprise Institute regarding a report by the Environmental Protection Agency on global warming. According to the press release, the EPA report violates an agreement between the White House and CEI to withdraw a lawsuit in which CEI argued the White House relied on discredited science. Specifically, the EPA report cites the discredited National Assessment on Climate Change, despite the White House agreeing to no longer cite its conclusions. CEI believes the EPA is ignoring the agreement and undermining the Bush Administration's policies on global warming.

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sure, whenever you want.
This is not an issue I'm familiar with.
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Phil and Rachel, FYI. Could we discuss?
Bob
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Subject: Fw: GET press release: EPA Climate Report Violates White House
Agreement to Settle Lawsuit
CET press release: EPA Climate Report Violates White House Agreement to
Settle
Lawsuit
Original Message ---
----
From: Myron Ebell
To: Myron Ebell
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 2:19 PM
Subject: CET 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. Homner, GET 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."
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Adds Myron Ebell, director of global warming policy at CEI: "The
Administration
has recognized that the NationalAssessment is the worst sort of junk
science.
For the EPA now to accept the National Assessment's findings as valid
undermines
and contradicts President flush'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 CEI, Senator James Inhofe CR-OK), Representatives Joe Knollenberg
(R-MI) and
Jo Ann Emerson CR-MO), and other non-profit advocacy groups. GET's
pleadings in
the case can be found in the docket at the federal District Court for the
District of Columbia CCV 00-02383).
GET is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to the
principles of free enterprise and limited government. For more information
about GET, visit our website at <www.cei.org>.
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<DTV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, June 03, 2002 2:19 PM</DIV>
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<P>•FONT face="Times New Roman">Gontact:&nbsp;&nbsp; </FONT><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Richard Morrison, 202 .331.1010</FONT> </P><BR>
<P align=center><fl><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=5>EPA Global Warming Repor
t
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 Previously Disavowed as Official Policy </FONT></T></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Washington, D.C., June 3,
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2002-The Environmental
Protection Agencys latest report on global warming to the United
Nations,</FONT><I> <FONT face="Times New Roman">Climate Action Report
2002</FONT></T><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 Asses
sment on Climate Change.</FONT></I></P>
<P><FONT face=rTimes 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></I><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> and stated that its unlawfully produced conclusions are
not policy positions or official statements of the U.S. governnient.&nbsp; EPA
has ignored this agreement in issuing its report to the United Natio
ns .&nbsp;
</F ONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Through Freedom of Information Act inquiries,
we learned that the</FONT><I> <FONT face="Times New Roman">National
Assessment</FONT></I><FONT face="Times New Roman"> was hurriedly slapped
together in an incomplete and inaccurate form, said Christopher C. Horner, CEI
counsel who filed the lawsuit.&nbsp; The current</FONT><I> <FONT
face="Times New Roman">Climate Action Report</FONT></I><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> inappropriately cites th
e 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
face="Times New Roman">National Assessment</FONT></I> <FONT
face="Times New Roman">is the worst sor
t 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 Bushs global warming policies.&nbsp; The
EPA needs to be told that the Clinton Administration is gone and Al Gore did no
t
win the election.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">The lawsuit against the White Houses flawed
climate science was brought jointly by CEI, Senator James
Inhofe (R-OK),
Representatives Joe Knollenberg (R-MI) and Jo Ann Emerson (R-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 (CV
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
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