will they rewrite old reports then as well???

September 16, 2002

i swear it gets to be more like 1984 every damn day

For the first time since 1995, the U.S. EPA's annual report on air

pollution trends, released earlier this month, has no section on

global warming. The EPA, which deleted the chapter with White House

approval, said the decision was made because the agency had released

two other reports on global warming earlier year and because this

particular report was meant to discuss only pollutants, like lead or

sulfur dioxide, that directly threaten people or ecosystems. Global

warming is still mentioned twice in the report, once in a passing

reference, and another time in a paragraph that points readers to the

deleted section on climate. (Presumably, at least the second instance

was a mistake.) Industry representatives and some conservatives

praised the move to strike the section, agreeing that carbon dioxide,

the main greenhouse gas, should not be considered a pollutant;

environmentalists, unsurprisingly, were frustrated by the decision.

straight to the source New York Times, Andrew C. Revkin, 15 Sep 2002

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