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Lawmakers, Advocacy Groups Sue Clinton Administration Over ''Junk
Science''
By Christine Hall CNS Staff Writer
October 08, 2000
(CNSNews.com) - The Clinton Administration ignored the law and
scientific standards in an effort to complete a global warming
report and release it later this month, according to a group of
lawmakers and advocacy groups.
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said the Administration circumvented
the law for purely political reasons.
"The Clinton Administration has conspired to overturn the intent
of Congress and evade federal laws in order to release a slanted
report on global warming in a transparent effort to help the Gore
campaign," Inhofe said at Capitol Hill news conference.
That's why Inhofe joined Representatives Joseph Knollenberg
(R-Mich.) and Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.), the Competitive Enterprise
Institute , Consumer Alert, the 60 Plus Association, and science
journalist David Wojick in the lawsuit against President Clinton
and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
(OSTP).
The lawmakers and lobbying groups expect to file their lawsuit
this month. They say public comment should have been included in
the report. Moreover, they accuse the OSTP of using "junk
science" to try to substantiate claims of global warming.
In the suit, they accuse the Clinton Administration of breaking a
federal law called the Federal Advisory Committees Act that
requires policy-making meetings to be open to the public and
attended by a designated officer to oversee procedural rules.
The journalist involved in the suit claims these rules were
violated when he was asked to leave the meetings and denied
access to documents given to other meeting attendees.
The suit further alleges that the administration broke a federal
law specifically requiring that the scientific conclusions
presented in the report be first put through legitimate
scientific experiments and then published in peer-reviewed
journals.
"We are asking a court to declare this report unlawful and to
require the administration to rewrite it in accord with proper
procedures as clearly stipulated in law," said Inhofe.
The global warming report is known as the National Assessment
Synthesis Report, or "National Assessment on Climate Change."
Originally requested by Congress no later than 1994, the report
was supposed to explain the science and the uncertainties
surrounding the theory of man-made global warming.
The suit also alleges violations of the U.S. Global Change
Research Act, charging that the OSTP wrongfully directed the
council drafting the global warming report to expand its work
outside the scope of its legal authority and delve into
non-scientific, political areas.
The Clinton Administration is also accused of violating a law
prohibiting the use of taxpayer money for the release or
publishing of the report before the underlying scientific work is
complete.
The White House did not return calls seeking comment.
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