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Climate Progress: What exactly is the difference between journalism and blogging? ABC’s Jake Tapper and the AP blow the “White House disses EPA endangerment finding” non-story.
Switchboard, from NRDC: Schooling ABC on the ABCs of "Endangerment"
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: The OMB-EPA Kerfuffle That Wasn't
What exactly is the difference between journalism and blogging? ABC’s Jake Tapper and the AP blow the “White House disses EPA endangerment finding” non-story.
Climate Progress —
... Rather than wasting your time with any further discussion of their misreporting, let’s just see what OMB director Peter Orszag has to say. The OMB is the source of this “White House memo” and apparently journalists don’t interview sources anymore. Orszag explains on his blog: ...
Schooling ABC on the ABCs of "Endangerment"
Switchboard, from NRDC —
... In his own blog, OMB director Peter Orszag writes today that this was "a document in which OMB simply collated and collected disparate comments from various agencies during the inter-agency review process of the proposed finding," and that those comments "do not necessarily represent the views of either OMB or the Administration." "Any reports suggesting that OMB was opposed to the finding are unfounded," Orszag writes, and claims that OMB "had concerns about whether EPA's finding was consistent with either the law or the underlying science" are "simply false." ...
Carrie Meets the OMB: the Big Climate Attack That Fizzled
Switchboard, from NRDC —
... One thing it isn't: a White House memo. OMB Director Peter Orszag made clear at that what some claimed to be a "smoking gun" was simply the detritus from the bottom of the suggestion barrel. Orszag made clear the document does not represent the White House position and that "The press reports to the contrary are simply false." ...
The OMB-EPA Kerfuffle That Wasn't
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science —
... As Orszag later clarified on his blog, his agency had in no way opposed the EPA’s proposal to regulate greenhouse gases. Any stories suggesting the contrary were “unfounded,” he said. ...
Follow the money: Global warming polluters pay to undermine Waxman-Markey clean energy bill
Climate Progress —
... to Economy if Greenhouse Gases Regulated through Clean Air Act,” wrote ABC News’s Jake Tapper. As OMB director Peter Orszag explained, however, there was no real controversy: “[W]e simply receive comments from various agencies and pass them along to EPA for consideration, regardless of the substantive merit of those comments.” The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder has revealed that the author of the comments was ...
