ENVIRONMENTAL
Revised U.S. EPA Position on Carbon Dioxide Emissions as a
Primary Contributor to Global Warming
As widely reported in today's news, Scott Pruitt, the new
Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), stated that carbon dioxide is not a primary contributor to
global warming. Appearing on a March 9 CNBC program, Mr. Pruitt
said, "I think that measuring with precision human activity on
the climate is something very challenging to do and there's
tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact, so no, I would
not agree that it's a primary contributor to the global warming
that we see."
Mr. Pruitt's challenge of the conclusion that carbon dioxide
emissions are a primary contributor to global warming is one that
he is now raising in the media. But notably, while serving as
Oklahoma's attorney general, he unsuccessfully raised the same
challenge in federal court, where evidence in support of a claim is
required. (Coalition
