Not completing the revision process would make the EPA vulnerable to claim that it depends on an incomplete draft report for its scientific justifications. So although the tactics of the Doe can protect some of its internal documents, it can ultimately cause greater problems for the agenda of the Trump administration.
The Academies attack
Earlier this year we were critical of the national academies of the US science because we apparently refused to respond to the attacks of the Trump government on science. That reluctance seemed to end in August with the release of the DIY climate report and the announcement that the EPA used that report as the last word about climate science, which she claimed had changed considerably since the first EPA decisions on this issue in 2009.
In response, the National Academies announced that it would accelerate a new analysis of the risks of greenhouse gases, made by regular scientists instead of a handful of edge figures. The aim was to get it done before the EPA concluded his public commentary period on its proposal to ignore greenhouse gases.
It is clear that this is a threat to the planned actions of the EPA, which apparently encouraged the Republicans in the congress to step in. Earlier this month, the chairman of the Huiscommissie for Supervision and Government Reform announced, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), Announced that he investigated the national academies for preparing this report and called it 'a flagrant partizan act for the Trump administration'.
Comer has also sent a letter to the National Academies, described his concerns and demands a variety of documents. Some of these are quite complicated: “The study is led by a national academic member who serves as an external adviser at the Science Philanthropy Alliance, who has ties with the left-wing group of Arabella advisors via the new Venture Fund, an organization that promotes a variety of progressive causes and a large climate process of noting the study of the Studation Procession, the non-length of the Studation Procession, the Last Dispectation Dispution of the Studation Procetative, the Funding Procetative, the Funding Procetative, the Funding Procetative, the Last Dispution The Funding Procetative, the Funding Procetationalization, the Funding Procetationalization, the Funding Procetative Procetationalization, the Funding Procetative Procetative. LEF to endorse former President Biden for his climate policy.
