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EPA denies global warming petitions
By: David SherfinskiExaminer Staff Writer

7/29/10 4:45 PM EDT

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday denied 10 petitions, one of which was filed by Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli, challenging the agency’s 2009
determination that climate change is occurring due to the emission of greenhouse
gases and threatens human health.

One basis of Cuccinelli’s petition, filed
in February, was the so-called “Climategate” flap, in which internal e-mails from climatologists alleging to have manufactured data were revealed. An investigation into the matter largely cleared the scientists involved of wrongdoing.

“These petitions — based as they are on selectively edited, out-of-context data and a manufactured controversy — provide no evidence to undermine our determination,” said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/blogs/capital-land/epa-denies-global-warming-petitions-99575494.html#ixzz0vGbHkH1u