{"id":136696,"date":"2018-06-08T17:41:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T23:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136696"},"modified":"2018-06-11T07:02:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:02:18","slug":"judge-tells-epa-to-put-up-or-shut-up-on-climate-change-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/08\/judge-tells-epa-to-put-up-or-shut-up-on-climate-change-evidence.html","title":{"rendered":"Judge tells EPA to put up or shut up on climate change “evidence”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Pruitt walked into the EPA and, suddenly, CO2 was playing no substantive role in climate change, and climate change was a deeply controversial, disagreed-upon phenomenon.<\/p>\n

Some people thought that Pruitt, in making a radical change of EPA stated scientific conclusions, might have some actual scientific justification for doing so, and submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) request for what science went into that policy change. Pruitt and the EPA kind of shrugged, saying, “So much science, so much is unknown and unknowable, it’s all subjective anyway, this would be too much work.”<\/p>\n

A Federal Judge has now called bullshit, and informed the EPA that they must comply with the FoIA request by 2 July, or explain why a bit more convincingly.<\/p>\n

When the head of an agency makes a public statement that appears to contradict \u2018the published research and conclusions of\u2019 that agency, the FOIA provides a valuable tool for citizens… Compliance with such a request would help \u2018ensure an informed citizenry, vital to the functioning of a democratic society.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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\nJudge orders EPA to disclose any science backing up Pruitt\u2019s climate claims<\/a><\/span>
\nEPA will have to comply with an information request by July.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Scott Pruitt walked into the EPA and, suddenly, CO2 was playing no substantive role in climate change, and climate change was a deeply controversial, disagreed-upon phenomenon. Some people thought that Pruitt, in making a radical change of EPA stated scientific conclusions, might have some actual scientific justification for doing so, and submitted a Freedom of … Continue reading “Judge tells EPA to put up or shut up on climate change “evidence””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,748,358],"tags":[1319,1235],"class_list":["post-136696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-poor-citizenship","tag-climate-change","tag-epa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/pritt.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132177,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/07\/trump-names-scott-pruitt-for-epa.html","url_meta":{"origin":136696,"position":0},"title":"Trump names Scott Pruitt for EPA","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Dec-16 12:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Pruitt is currently Attorney General of Oklahoma. 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