WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), a member of the
Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, organized a letter signed
by all Republican EPW members to the Environment Protection Agency (EPA)
about claims by the President regarding global temperatures. Sessions
issued the following comment upon release of the letter:
To read the letter signed sent by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), along
with Ranking Member David Vitter (R-LA), Sens. James Inhofe (R-OK),
Roger Wicker (R-MS), Deb Fischer (R-NE), John Boozman (R-AR), John
Barrasso (R-WY), and Mike Crapo (R-ID) as a PDF, please click here. Sessions’ comment upon release of the letter follows:
“To promote his global warming agenda, the President has stated
that ‘temperature around the globe is increasing faster than was
predicted even 10 years ago.’ He repeated this claim just a few weeks
ago. This is a specific, technical assertion that can be tested in light
of actual data. For more than seven months, I have been waiting for EPA
to respond to a very simple request: provide an EPA chart comparing
actual global temperatures with the official predictions that were made a
decade ago. But EPA won’t provide this data. The American people
deserve to know if the President has the facts straight, particularly as
EPA presses ahead with zealous regulations that will drive up the price
of electricity and make it harder for American workers to compete in
the world economy. Before the President adds new burdens on American
families and workers in an effort to curb a threat of rising global
temperatures, shouldn’t he and his Administration produce the data
supporting his contention that temperatures are increasing faster than
predicted over ten years ago? This is important because published data
suggest otherwise.”
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