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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

EPA Memo Questions Greenhouse Effects

Environmentalists and Democrats can't be happy with this confidential memo from the EPA. From Hot Air:

An EPA finding last month that greenhouse gases are a danger to public health rests on dubious assumptions and could have negative economic impacts, a memo from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) warned.

...“In the absence of a strong statement of the standards being applied in this decision, there is concern that EPA is making a finding based on…’harm’ from substances that have no demonstrated direct health effects,” the memo says, adding that the “scientific data that purports to conclusively establish” that link was from outside EPA.

It probably doesn't matter. As with matters of economics and taxes, Democrats don't follow facts when dealing with environmental matters.