White House fights to keep global warming document hidden
According to
Dow Jones and
The Wall Street Journal, the White House has quietly been fighting to suppress a report finished in December by the Environmental Protection Agency that could become the foundation for tighter regulations of greenhouse gas emissions, such as increasing vehicle fuel economy. The report apparently outlines how policy changes for vehicles, planes, trains, power stations and refineries could reduce gas emissions, saving society more than $2 trillion. What is astonishing, according to a
New York Times story, is that the White House refused to even open the e-mail containing the document from the EPA, thinking that by ignoring the report and leaving it in cyber-limbo, then it must not exist or need to be acknowledged. Journalists should seek out all reports produced by agencies, even the ones that are suppressed because the findings don't support the politicians' goals.