A FORMER White House aide has defended editing government reports on global climate change to put them in line with the views of the Bush administration.
Phil Cooney, former chief of staff of the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality, said this was part of the normal review process. A former lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute, Cooney now works for oil company ExxonMobil.
The US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held its second hearing on political interference in federal climate change research on Monday, as part of a continuing investigation. Documents “appear to portray a systematic White…
