Chamber Threatens Lawsuit if EPA Rejects Climate Science 'Trial' - NYTimes.com

"They don't have the science to support the endangerment finding," Bill Kovacs, the chamber's vice president for environment, regulatory and government affairs, said in an interview. "We can't just take their word for it."
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Litigation is a "certainty," regardless of EPA's next move, Kovacs said.

SAVORING THAT BOOK - New York Post

Looks like President Obama is one slow reader.

The commander in chief's list of beach books for his Martha's Vineyard vacation includes an environmental best seller that he bragged about reading almost a year ago on the campaign trail.

Obama was so taken with Thomas Friedman's "Hot, Flat and Crowded" that he quoted it at a rally last September in Flint, Mich., and one media outlet described it as the book that was currently on the then-candidate's nightstand.

The 448-page book appeared again on Monday on the list of five books that Obama planned to read on his vacation in Martha's Vineyard.

The ChamberPost: Transparency, Science and the EPA Revisited

No, the agency used secondary scientific sources, studies that largely weren't adequately peer-reviewed and the selective use of scientific studies to justify a policy decision they wanted to make. And in terms of trials based on myth, exactly the opposite -- we DON'T want decades of publicly accessible evidence to be ignored. There are many questions to be asked of the EPA, and forgive the Chamber for not accepting "Trust Us" as an answer. To enact effective policy we need transparency and scientific data which is beyond question, not data deemed beyond questioning.

Twitter / David Bugnon

Beautiful morning in the Twin Cities, MN, sunshine & 66 degrees. I don't know if we could survive that additional .675 degrees Al Gore.