The document discusses an upcoming EPA report on the state of the environment. It summarizes that EPA has decided to remove all data related to global warming from the report after disputes with the White House OMB over how to portray climate change trends. An environmentalist source says EPA decided to remove the section entirely rather than allow OMB to distort the language. The document provides further details on reactions and recommendations regarding the omission of global warming data from the report.

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Wednesday, June 18, 2003
Report After Fight
From 'State of Environment'
EPA Drops Climate Data
With 0MB
global warming
to drop all data regarding
EPA has apparently decided report after the agency
and
Environment"
from an upcoming "State of the (0MB) sparred over how
of Management and Budget
the White House's Office report, which is slated
for
trends in the
to portray climate change the report as one of
officials have been touting
release June 23. Agency Todd Whitman's final initiatives,
Christine
outgoing EPA Administrator
of the Bush administration.
laying out the accomplishments
to remove the
says EPA apparently decided
But one environmentalist language during a
after 0MB distorted the
section on global warming better to
EPA decided "it was probably
review of the report, saying
it say something distorted."
remove it than to have
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comment.
EPA did not return calls seeking
Whitman to provide
initiative championed by
The report stems from an conditions, that will be
released
information on actual environmental the end of June. Sources have already
at
days before Whitman's departure Whitman's
findings are uncertain given
said that use of the report's
departure.
landmark document
have said the report is a
Sources tracking the issue to comprehensively
the agency has attempted
because it is the first time on
indicators that provide information air..
develop a set of environmental media, including land, water and
the state of various environmental
how to describe
had reportedly been debating
This spring, EPA and OMB Sources said 0MB was
in the report.
trends in temperature changes showing climate change
reluctant to have the agency include information
represents a serious problem.
by EPA's
comments on the report prepared
But now, according to draft and Technology
for Environmental Policy
National Advisory Council warming data.
the agency has entirely eliminated the global not in
(NACEPT), to global warming issue were
"We were advised that data related why the report does
to be prepared to address
the report. EPA will need greenhouse gases, and other
major
change,
not include global climate
issues," the comments say.
say.
NACEPT to review, the comments
EPA did not provide the report to from information
prepared based on a briefing
The NACEPT's comments were
chief Kim Nelson.
the anticipated
they are not surprised by
Environmental groups say about global
administration's skepticism
omission, given the Bush the Kyoto treaty.
decision to withdraw from
warming and controversial agency is
still "pretty shocking" the
But one source says it is that fails to discuss
state of the environment
releasing a report on the The source says it is part
of "a
the major issue of climate change. that i contrary to the
pattern of supesig information actions are
policy view" that major new
administration's pre-determined warming.
not needed to address global
such
reports on the environment,
The source notes that previous federal Quality
White House Council on Environmental "as a
as reports released by the warming
addressed the issue of global
throughout the 1980s that of the environment." That
history
the state
significant factor affecting out such discussion in its state of the
leave
makes EPA's decision to doctor and not having your
environment report "kind of like going to the
source says.
blood pressur~e taken," the
intended
EPA must consider the report's
A Meanwhile, the NACEPT says contain, and how to
what it does and does not
audience, how to portray
releasing it to the public.
act on the findings when
intended audiences
to clearly inform both the
"At release, EPA will need and what it is
the report was developed
and the general public why the NACEPT says, the
intended to convey," the NACEPT says. For instance, to convey agency
such as "is the report intended
report raises questions [and) is the report
success of such policies
't, ~ policies or comment on the rvd rn
of the environment or willi
intended to be a 'snapshot' changed over time?"
of the environment has
data to show the health
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to
to address how the report relates
The NACEPT's comments also tell EPA the report is national in
since
state and local environmental programs, audience, EPA should
scale. "To address localized concerns of the report
information on state and local
concurrently provide access to equivalent
acknowledge international
scales. Similarly, the report should
environmental issues, such as climate changes and trans-boundary
context for judging the health of
pollution, to provide the appropriate
the U.S. environment."
information regarding why certain
The NACEPT also says EPA must provide
data were excluded. "EPA will need
information was included while other for
process used to select information
to clearly describe the filtering EPA should explain which
inclusion in the report." For instance., collected
environmental indicators were excluded even though the agency
and why they were excluded, which
data for them, like global warming, because of data
indicators the agency wanted to include but could not
gaps, and how EPA will address data gaps.
Date: June 18, 2003
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