Disregulated.

I’ll See Your Endangerment Regulation and Raise You My Data Quality Act.

The Obama attempt to regulate the output of the gas carbon dioxide by declaring it a danger to public health by the EPA has come unstuck because it relied on the UN IPCC when it is required to cite real science by the Data Quality Act.

THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Watchdog: EPA cut corners on global-warming decision
Report supports lawsuits seeking to block Obama global-warming rules
By Stephen Dinan
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/28/watchdog-epa-cut-corners-global-warming-decision/

” …“EPA had the [science] reviewed by a panel of 12 federal climate-change scientists. However, the panel’s findings and EPA’s disposition of the findings were not made available to the public as would be required for reviews of highly influential scientific assessments,” the investigators said. “Also, this panel did not fully meet the independence requirements for reviews of highly influential scientific assessments because one of the panelists was an EPA employee.”

The inspector general said EPA failed from the outset to identify the Technical Support Document, or TSD, as “influential,” which would subject it to heightened standards of scientific review…. “

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US SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT & PUBLIC WORKS
EPA IG Finds Serious Flaws in Centerpiece of Obama Global Warming Agenda
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=aff94d6b-802a-23ad-4e31-7cfec2ba368f

Report calls the scientific integrity of EPA’s decision-making process into question and undermines the credibility of the endangerment finding

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Carlin was the original EPA whistleblower.

CARLIN ECONOMICS & SCIENCE
EPA Inspector General Finds Procedures Used in Preparing GHG Endangerment Finding Did Not Follow OMB Requirements
Alan Carlin| September 28, 2011
http://www.carlineconomics.com/archives/1363

“The USEPA Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued a review questioning the procedures used in preparing the Technical Support Document (TSD) on which EPA’s Endangerment Finding for greenhouse gases (GHGs) was based. The review argues that the TSD was a “highly influential scientific assessment” but that EPA did not follow the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requirements for such assessments.

My comments on the draft TSD strongly advocated an independent EPA review of the science rather then relying on the science presented in reports prepared by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The OIG review does not deal with the validity of the science–only the procedures used in preparing the TSD. But among the OIG conclusions were the following that appear to be related to my recommendation:… “

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POSTSCRIPT
FORBES MAGAZINE
Op/Ed  9/30/2011 @ 4:10PM
Patrick Michaels, Contributor
The EPA’s Endangerment Finding Is Very Endangered
http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmichaels/2011/09/30/the-epas-endangerment-finding-is-very-endangered/