The memo, drafted by two environmental economists, is highly critical of the science behind an Environmental Protection Agency memo that found carbon dioxide to be a greenhouse gas. Mr. Carlin, according to his Web site, has worked for close to four decades as an economist at the EPA. Mr. Carlin’s boss, Al McGartland, director of the National Center for Environmental Economics, wrote in a series of e-mails between March 12 and March 17 that he would not forward the critique to the EPA office in charge of writing the final endangerment finding.
“I don’t want you to spend any additional EPA time on climate change. No papers, no research etc., at least until we see what EPA is going to do with Climate,” Mr. McGartland wrote in a May 17 e-mail.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a conservative think tank, pushed the memo and the e-mails this week and, on Tuesday, sent the EPA a formal request that it release the report.
“EPA sits on this report for over three months, and then only allows it to be made public on the author’s personal Web site,” CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman said. “The fact that we have to formally re-file it with the agency indicates how unreal this situation is.”
