by Audrey Streb
The Daily Caller
The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) released its report on how greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) endanger public health on Wednesday, which several energy sector experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation was thrown together with the aim of undermining the Trump administration.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is moving to roll back the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which determined that GHGs including carbon dioxide can be regulated as they pose a danger to human health and the environment. In response, NASEM put together a review which argues that GHG emissions are building up in the atmosphere, which contributes to climate change, though energy policy experts have previously explained to the DCNF that the Endangerment Finding was not founded on sound evidence and that it has since been used to impose crippling regulations and limit consumer choice…
“It is just more evidence of a rigged process that the National Academy of Sciences can produce a report on the EPA’s proposed rescission of the endangerment finding a mere five weeks after announcing,” Steve Milloy, senior fellow at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute, told the DCNF. Milloy has also pointed out several areas of the report he believes are inaccurate, misleading or rely on cherry-picked data. “The committee was comprised exclusively of climate alarmists and no atmospheric science experts participated. While NAS committee reports usually take on average 21 months to be completed, this report has been rushed to release in a little more than one month. The NAS has unfortunately become an activist vs. a scientific advisory group that the federal government provides two-thirds of its funding. President Trump should zero out that funding unless and until the NAS ceases its gross partisanship.”
