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GAO sees that EENews, a Politico organ, intends to publish a story next week indignant that members of the public less enthusiastic about the climate litigation industry than EENews/Politico would dare ask questions about a National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine “Attribution Science” Committee. As GAO readers know, that panel happens to be stacked with amicus brief-filing environmental activists…

Following up, most recently, on this post, GAO sees just how absurd it is for NASEM to purport to be any sort of impartial participant on “climate” science or policy, particularly as it pertains to the effort to rush in and influence the Environmental Protection Agency’s reconsideration and rescission of the 2009 Endangerment Finding (EF). The larger production of correspondence…

Following up on this, GAO sees more records from the National Academies’ “very fast track study titled “Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases and US Climate”, [to] be completed in time to be incorporated into the docket for the current administration’s reconsideration of the endangerment finding for carbon dioxide.” Records which, it is worth noting, several other, naughty participants/custodians failed to locate. (More…

Following up on this post, GAO sees the below from the University of Texas-Austin and NASEM endangerment panel author (and pro-regulation amicus-filer) David Allen, who in the top email seems to get let in on the effort, which he would soon join, by an energy industry “Senior Director, Climate & Sustainability”:    

Comments on National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Fast-track Review of the Evidence on Whether Greenhouse Gas Emissions are Reasonably Anticipated to Endanger Public Health and Welfare in the U.S., in Response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to rescind its 2009 Endangerment Finding. Submitted via NASEM website. NOTE: Due to NASEM’s restrictions on characters and attachments, full…

President Biden has nominated former Massachusetts Undersecretary of Energy and Climate Solutions, Judy Chang, to be a FERC Commissioner. Ms. Chang is possibly best well-known for a 2018 comment staking out the position that because New England would move away from natural gas within the next five years it was irresponsible to invest in pipelines. At the time—let alone six…