Former White House official doctored global-warming reports to undercut scientific findings

onMar 20, 2007 @ 19:41 PDT

Philip Cooney, former chief of staff at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, has acknowledged at a House hearing some of the changes he made were “to align these communications with the administration’s stated policy” on climate change.

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, said “my concern is that there was a concerted White House effort to inject uncertainty into the climate debate.”

Waxman’s committee also heard from James Hansen, director of NASA‘s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and one of the country’s leading climate scientists, who said the White House repeatedly tried to control what government scientists say to the public and media about climate change.

By Bill Miller

uk/Kemi Badenoch Accepted £7,500 Retreat from Chair of Climate Denial Group

BySam Bright

onMar 24, 2026 @ 11:07 PDT

The Tory leader spent a week at the home of a major party donor.

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Climate Disasters Hit Homeowners Through Insurance Bills, and States Want Big Oil to Pay

BySharon Kelly

onMar 24, 2026 @ 08:50 PDT

After surviving a California wildfire, one family saw premiums quadruple — as states consider laws to force fossil fuel companies to pay for the soaring costs of climate catastrophes they helped create.