White House edits CDC climate testimony
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The White House severely edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health, removing specific scientific references to potential health risks, according to two sources familiar with the documents.
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Previously, the administration had emphasized uncertainties in understanding the causes and consequences of global warming.
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The White House on Wednesday told 15 federal agencies to better share scientific data about the Earth among themselves and with other nations.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday she led a congressional delegation to Greenland, where lawmakers saw "firsthand evidence that climate change is a reality," and she hoped the Bush administration would consider a new path on the issue.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa A NASA scientist has charged that the Bush administration is subverting science and misleading the public by trying to suppress or alter evidence on the dangers of global warming.
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US recognises global warming danger but wants to lead response outside UN.
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Warmer temperatures in North America since 1950 were probably caused in part by human activity, the Bush administration said in a report that appeared to contradict the White House position there was no clear scientific proof on
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To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS   In his first appearance before the 110th Congress, the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today told a House Subcommittee that NOAA's fiscal year (FY) 2008 will help it build upon recent successes.
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WASHINGTON Government documents reveal that a top AIDS researcher changed a report about an important drug study, rewriting the conclusion and taking out negative information.
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Democratic leaders of a House science subcommittee alleged yesterday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency manipulated scientific research into the potential danger posed by a toxic gas emitted in trailers still housing tens of thousands of survivors of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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The White House has raised last-minute concerns over regulation of automobile emissions and fuel economy that aides said Tuesday could lead to a presidential veto of the energy bill now before Congress.
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The Democratic chairman of a House panel examining the government's response to climate change said Tuesday there is evidence that senior Bush administration officials sought repeatedly "to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global warming."
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Despite agreeing on the outline for a new global warming deal, the White House quibbled with it Saturday and said it does not sufficiently address the role of developing nations.
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U.S. scientists were pressured to tailor their writings on global warming to fit the Bush administration's skepticism, in some cases at the behest of a former oil-industry lobbyist, a congressional committee heard on Tuesday.
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A Bush administration program has not focused enough on the impact of warming on humans, the panel said.
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Previously, the Bush administration stressed uncertainties in understanding the causes and consequences of global warming.
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A new report claims that the Bush administration has suppressed scientists' climate-change work.