Did Obama’s EPA suppress report skeptical on climate change?
The Bush administration was legendary for the many complaints that it systematically suppressed and dismissed research on climate change and the human role in encouraging global warming, at times by having scientific reports edited by a non-scientist White House aide who had previously worked as an oil industry lobbyist. Now, according to the CBS-owned technology news site CNET, a staff researcher at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is complaining that his bosses in the Obama administration similarly tried to quash an internal report that had raised questions about the need for strict research of carbon dioxide: The Environmental Protection Agency may have suppressed an internal report that was skeptical of claims about global warming, including whether carbon dioxide must be strictly regulated by the federal government, according to a series of newly disclosed e-mail messages. Less than two weeks before the agency formally submitted its pro-regulation recommendation to the Whi
