This document is an email from Khary Cauthen to Dana Perino, Elizabeth Stolpe, and Lisa Harrison at EPA regarding changes the White House made to an EPA report on the environment. The White House edited out a long section on risks from climate change and whittled it down to a few noncommittal paragraphs. The White House also deleted conclusions about the likely human contribution to global warming from a 2001 National Research Council report and a reference to a 1999 study showing temperatures had risen sharply in the last decade. In their place, the administration added a reference to a new study partly funded by the oil industry questioning that conclusion.

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CREATOR:Khary I. Cauthen ( CN=Khary I. Cauthen/OU=CEQ/O=EOP [ CEQI
CREATION DATE/TIME:19-JUN-2003 07:54:16.00
SUBJECT:: Come on....Let's just say that this is typical....
TO:Dana M. Perino ( CN=Dana N. Perino/OU=CEQ/o=EOP@EOP [ CEQI
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TO:Elizabeth A. Stolpe ( CN=Elizabeth A. Stolpe/OU=CEQ/O=EOP@EOP [ CEQ
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TO:harrison.lisa~epa-gov @inet ( harrison.lisa~epa.gov @ mnet [ UNKNOWN I
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NY Times lies!!! There's no such person as the EPA Official who gave the
report!!
White House Edits Sections Of EPA Report, Leaving Out Climate Change
Data.V The New York Times (6/19, Revkin, Seelye) reports, "The
Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to publish a draft report
next week on the state of the environment, but after editing by the
White
House, a long section describing risks from rising global temperatures
has
been whittled to a few noncommittal paragraphs.y The report, commissioned
in 2001 by the agency's administrator, Christie Whitman, was intended
to
provide the first comprehensive review of what is known about various
environmental problems, where gaps in understanding exist and how
to fill
them.y Agency officials said it was tentatively scheduled to be released
early next week, before Mrs. Whitman steps down on June 27, ending
a
troubled time in office that often put her at odds with President Bush.9
Drafts of the climate section, with changes sought by the White House,
were given to The New York Times yesterday by a former E.P.A. official,
along with earlier drafts and an internal memorandum in which some
officials protested the changes."9 The Times adds, "Among the deletions
were conclusions about the likely human contribution to warming from
a
2001 report on climate by the National Research Council that the White
House had commissioned and that President Bush had endorsed in speeches
that year.y White House officials also deleted a reference to a 1999
study
showing that global temperatures had risen sharply in the previous
decade
compared with the last 1,000 years.y In its place, administration
officials added a reference to a new study, partly financed by the
American Petroleum Institute, questioning that conclusion."~
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