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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”:    

Read here. Comments on EPA’s Proposed Reconsideration of 2009 Endangerment Finding and Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards, 40 CFR Parts 85, 86, 600, 1036, 1037, and 1039 [EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0194; FRL-12715-01-OAR] RIN 2060-AW71 Government Accountability & Oversight Contact: info@govoversight.org SUMMARY OF COMMENTS: COMMENT 1: U.S. policy actions are expected to have undetectably minimal, if any, direct impact on the global climate and any…

In pursuit of the shocking yet not surprising revelations of which GAO readers are aware (see here, here, here), GAO has filed comments on the EPA’S proposed repeal of greenhouse gas emission standards for fossil-fuel fired electricity generation. In short, Boom. You should read them, here.

May 12, 2025 Office of Management and Budget Washington, DC Response to Notice of Request for Information, April 11, 2025 By Regulations.gov Portal In response to OMB’s solicitation of ideas for deregulation, specifically rules to be rescinded and detailed reasons for their rescission, Government Accountability & Oversight submits the following: I.                  Rules for rescission: New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse…

It has been a busy time on the taxpayer-funded, green-group grant front. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency filed an appeal in the D.C. Circuit of a district court order that it unfreeze some of the billions of dollars in taxpayer funds to activists, financing the industry that was engaged with the Biden administration to advance an aligned agenda. This is very…

Amid reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering the December 2009 “Endangerment Finding” regarding greenhouse gases,[1] a recanvassing of emails obtained in the infamous “Richard Windsor” Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit brought over a dozen years ago by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) against the Agency[2] leads to a troubling conclusion: the Obama EPA’s regulatory “finding” that greenhouse gases…

This document just released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency takes the cake. Particularly on the heels of this email from a well-placed (and he wants you to know it!) Washington lawyer to his alma mater, UCLA Law School. Lookie here: