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The Government Accountability Project has charged that a White House official who previously worked for the oil industry’s lobby group repeatedly edited and altered government climate reports in a way that downplays links between global warming and greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. Philip Cooney, chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, made changes to descriptions of climate research that had already been approved by government scientists and their supervisors, the newspaper said, citing internal documents. Mr. Cooney has no scientific training.
This Bush administration has a long history of white-washing the science behind global warming. In 2003, the Bush administration deleted passages from an Environmental Protection Agency Report that identified global warming as a threat to the environment and public health. Additionally, the White House also put hazy, confusing language in place of the original conclusions in a National Academy of Sciences study that showed how human activities are driving global warming.
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