Inspector General; EPA violated it's own peer review procedure!

[gsvol]

EPA’s greenhouse gas science didn’t follow its own peer review procedure, IG says Hot Air

“I appreciate the inspector general conducting a thorough investigation into the Obama-EPA’s handling of the endangerment finding for greenhouse gases,” Inhofe said. “This report confirms that the endangerment finding, the very foundation of President Obama’s job-destroying regulatory agenda, was rushed, biased and flawed. It calls the scientific integrity of EPA’s decision-making process into question and undermines the credibility of the endangerment finding.”

Inhofe lambasted the EPA for its failure to adhere to its own rules, outsourcing the science to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — and refusing to conduct its own analysis of the science — in the period leading up to its final endangerment finding.

“The endangerment finding is no small matter: Global warming regulations imposed by the Obama-EPA under the Clean Air Act will cost American consumers $300 to $400 billion a year, significantly raise energy prices, and destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs.

This is not to mention the ‘absurd result’ that EPA will need to hire 230,000 additional employees and spend an additional $21 billion to implement its [green house gas] regime. And all of this economic pain is for nothing: As EPA Administrator [Lisa] Jackson also admitted before the Environmental and Public Works] committee, these regulations will have no effect on the climate.”

 

[TennTradition]

It took an IG report to find that the EPA used the IPCC assessment reports to make it's endangerment finding, when that was already a known and open fact from the beginning? Sounds like a good use of time...

I have always thought they could have handled the science behind the finding better. At the very least, critique the IPCC assessments and put your scientific assessment stamp on what you synthesize from the IPCC assessments of the scientific literature.
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[volinbham]

To me the bigger story is this is yet another example of this administration skirting process to push regulations, actions, loans that meet their agenda. Interesting that this administration also lectures us on how they'll be driven by science and facts rather than agenda.

 

[gsvol]

 

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