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In 2005 – ROMNEY ANNOUNCES STRICT NEW CLEAN AIR REGULATIONS TO TAKE EFFECT JANUARY 1

By: izoneguy (Diary)  |  September 30th, 2011 at 06:00 PM  | 

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December 7, 2005
ROMNEY ANNOUNCES STRICT NEW CLEAN AIR REGULATIONS TO TAKE EFFECT JANUARY 1
New clean air rules balance environmental and economic goals

This release back in 2005 probably did not make much of an impact. One sentence did catch my eye:

In the development of greenhouse gas policy, Romney Administration officials have elicited input from environmental and economic policy experts. These include John Holden, professor of environmental policy at Harvard University and chair of the National Commission on Energy Policy and Billy Pizer, an economist at Resources for the Future, an environmental policy think-tank based in Washington D.C.

Notice anything? I think it was supposed to be John Holdren, professor of environmental policy at Harvard University. I mean how many guys named John Holden and John Holdren are Professor’s of environmental policy at Harvard University?

Yes, that’s right the same John Holdren (John Holden) who works for Obama.

Yes, right again! The same John Holdren who says: Forced abortions and mass sterilization needed to save the planet!

Wow, Romney really has some interesting people advising him!

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  • izoneguy

    Hmmmm, have not found any John Holden’s who are professors at Harvard???
    Maybe Romney meant one of these John Holden’s???

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  • tngal

    “I hate mittens” bumpersticker, if you need one. Mine’s stuck next to my Fred sticker (which will never come off as long as I have the car.)

  • izoneguy

    An IPCC backchannel ?cloud? was apparently established to hide IPCC deliberations from?FOIA

    … on the heels of the weekend surprise of a 2005 memo showing President Obama?s cooling/warming/population zealot of a ?science czar? John Holdren is the kind of guy Mitt Romney turns to to develop his ?environmental? policies, we?ve exposed the Obama administration and IPCC have cooperated to subvert U.S. transparency laws, run domestically out of Holdren?s White House office.

    This effort has apparently been conducted with participation ? thereby direct assistance and enabling ? by the Obama White House which, shortly after taking office, seized for Holdren?s office the lead role on IPCC work from the Department of Commerce. The plan to secretly create a FOIA-free zone was then implemented.

    This represents politically assisting the IPCC to enable UN, EU and U.S. bureaucrats and political appointees avoid official email channels for specific official work of high public interest, performed on official time and using government computers, away from the prying eyes of increasingly skeptical taxpayers.

    Possibly one Republican candidate will call in the next debate for ending US funding of the IPCC, now shown to be actively working (with the Obama White House) to subvert US law. Enough is enough is enough. Possibly Gov. Romney could defend Holdren and the IPCC.

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    Obama Science Czar Led UN Effort to Hide Proceedings, Subvert FOIA, Records Indicate

    The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request today with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), run by controversial White House Science Adviser (and former Mitt Romney climate adviser) John Holdren. The FOIA request seeks records involving an apparently co-ordinated effort between OSTP and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to subvert and circumvent U.S. law.

    Specifically, CEI’s FOIA request seeks details of the Obama Administration’s involvement in a UN IPCC plan to hide official online correspondence in non-governmental accounts. The express purpose of creating a non-government web-site “cloud” communications system was to avoid national transparency laws, such as the U. S. FOIA. However, with OSTP having taken over the lead U.S. role in the IPCC in 2009, this also implicates the Presidential Records Act of 1978 (PRA).

    Freedom of Information Act Request

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    GOP Lawmakers Challenge White House on ‘Scientific Misconduct’

    Several Republican lawmakers are challenging the Obama administration’s science czar over what they claim are repeat incidents of “scientific misconduct” among agencies, questioning whether officials who deal with everything from endangered species to nuclear waste are using “sound science.”

    The letter sent Wednesday to John Holdren, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, cited four specific controversies in recent years where scientific findings were questioned. Sens. David Vitter, R-La., and James Inhofe, R-Okla., and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., rattled off a slew of questions on what they called “the apparent collapse in the quality of scientific work being conducted at our federal agencies.”

    “Specifically, we are concerned with data quality, integrity of methodologies and collection of information, agencies misrepresenting publicly the weight of scientific ‘facts,’ indefensible representations of scientific conclusions before our federal court system, and our fundamental notions of ‘sound’ science,” they wrote. “We identify in this letter important examples of agency scientific misconduct.”

    “Amid uncertainty over whether it had the authority to terminate the Yucca Mountain repository program, DOE terminated the program without formally assessing the risks stemming from the shutdown, including the possibility that it might have to resume the repository effort,” the report said.

    A June report from Republicans on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee also said the panel could not find a “single document” to support claims that Yucca Mountain is unsafe for nuclear waste.

    Not all Republicans are united in backing the Yucca site, however.
    It’s a sensitive issue in Nevada, and at the Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas Tuesday night top GOP candidates said the federal government should not be sticking Nevada with the waste.

    “The idea that 49 states can tell Nevada, ‘We want to give you our nuclear waste,’ doesn’t make a lot of sense,” former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said.