On October 13, 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency released a copy of a Bush/Cheney administration’s EPA report on global warming, previously acknowledged to exist, but only just released to the public under the Freedom of Information Act.
The report written in 2007 had restrained and measured language, with minimal detail, suggesting the EPA biologists were weary of how the White House might react. It became well known that the Bush/Cheney team did not want to regulate greenhouse gases.
None-the-less, their EPA 2007 report conclusion was the same as the Obama administration EPA findings in 2009: scientific evidence concluded that curbing C02 emissions was critical to avoid serious consequences to the country on a health, economic, and security level.
“The report demonstrates that in 2007 the science was as clear as it is today," Adora Andy, an EPA spokeswoman, said. "The conclusions reached then by EPA scientists should have been made public and should have been considered”—as part of the on going national debate.
"Both reach the same conclusion: the public is endangered and regulation is required," said Jason Burnett, a former associate deputy administrator. Burnett resigned from the EPA in June 2008 over the frustration of the Bush administration's inaction on climate change. "Science and the law transcend politics."
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