Climate Action Report FOIA Email 3.20.03 (b)

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CREATOR:Phil Cooney ( CN=Phil Cooney/OU=CEQ/O=EOP [ CEQI
CREATION DATE/TIME:20-MAR-2003 16:58:19.00
SUBJECT: : Re: FW: Washington Times note on US Climate Action Report
TO:Kamerafl L. Onley ( CN=Kameran L. Onley/OU=CBQ/O=EOP@EOP ( CEQI
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yes, Phil
Kameran L. Onley
03/20/2003 04:49:24 PM
Record Type: Record
To: Phil Cooney/CEQ/EOP@EOP
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Subject: FW: Washington Times note on US Climate Action Report
Phil,
Can I fax a copy of the letter to Ann? She is the lawyer who is in charge
of the C02 Ex/Im case. 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@BOP
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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-
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
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the
Environmental Protection Agency "Climate Action Report" Submitted to
United Nations outlining U.S. positions on catastrophic man-made global
warming.
But the climate report, according to the CET, basically repackages
findings from the "National Assessment on Climate Change," a document
earlier disavowed by the Bush White House.
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The administration distanced itself from the assessment when settling
lawsuit filed by CET counsel Christopher H-orner 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.'
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But now the administration appears to have flip-flopped, putting its
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 GET counsel calls the report, "to file lawsuits demanding
the
the most expensive regulatory undertaking in U.S. history, given that
U.S. now 'admits' it."
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