On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:03:42 -0400, HarryKrause wrote:

Ex-oil lobbyist quits White House job


Official reportedly edited warming, emission link

Updated: 5:08 p.m. ET June 11, 2005WASHINGTON - A senior official at the
White House Council on Environmental Quality has resigned, days after a
newspaper reported he changed some government reports to downplay links
between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming.

Philip Cooney, the council’s chief of staff and a former energy industry
lobbyist, resigned on Friday, two days after The New York Times reported
he edited some descriptions of climate research in a way that cast doubt
on links between greenhouse gas emissions and rising temperatures.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino confirmed Cooney had resigned from
the council but said it was unrelated to the Times story.

“Mr. Cooney has long been considering his options following four years
of service in the administration,” she said. “He had accumulated four
weeks of leave and decided to resign and take the summer off to spend
time with his family.”

Cooney is a lawyer who previously worked for the American Petroleum
Institute, which like the Bush administration opposes mandatory curbs on
greenhouse gas emissions.

Warming language qualified, removed
The Times reported that Cooney made handwritten notes on drafts of
several reports issued in 2002 and 2003, removing or adjusting language
on climate research.

The paper said it obtained the reports from the Government
Accountability Project, a nonprofit group that is representing an
official who resigned in March from the Climate Change Science Program,
which issued the documents edited by Cooney.

In one document, Cooney reportedly crossed out a paragraph describing
the projected reduction of mountain glaciers and snowpack from warming.
Those projections, he noted in the margins, are “straying from research
strategy into speculative findings/musings.”

The Times also reported the words “significant and fundamental” were
added before the word “uncertainties” when describing the state of
climate science.

The White House denied that Cooney had watered down the impact of global
warming.

- - -


Well, of course. All the Busn misadminstation ever does when it is
caught lying, cheating, or stealing is DENY, DENY, DENY.

What a crock of crooks at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

I'll bet all those Bush guys own 36' Zimmerman style lobsta boats too!

--
John H

"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal,
murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a
particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to
miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his
continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction
... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real
...."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003

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On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:03:42 -0400, HarryKrause
wrote:

Ex-oil lobbyist quits White House job


Official reportedly edited warming, emission link

Updated: 5:08 p.m. ET June 11, 2005WASHINGTON - A senior official at the
White House Council on Environmental Quality has resigned, days after a
newspaper reported he changed some government reports to downplay links
between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming.

Philip Cooney, the council's chief of staff and a former energy industry
lobbyist, resigned on Friday, two days after The New York Times reported
he edited some descriptions of climate research in a way that cast doubt
on links between greenhouse gas emissions and rising temperatures.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino confirmed Cooney had resigned from
the council but said it was unrelated to the Times story.

"Mr. Cooney has long been considering his options following four years
of service in the administration," she said. "He had accumulated four
weeks of leave and decided to resign and take the summer off to spend
time with his family."

Cooney is a lawyer who previously worked for the American Petroleum
Institute, which like the Bush administration opposes mandatory curbs on
greenhouse gas emissions.

Warming language qualified, removed
The Times reported that Cooney made handwritten notes on drafts of
several reports issued in 2002 and 2003, removing or adjusting language
on climate research.

The paper said it obtained the reports from the Government
Accountability Project, a nonprofit group that is representing an
official who resigned in March from the Climate Change Science Program,
which issued the documents edited by Cooney.

In one document, Cooney reportedly crossed out a paragraph describing
the projected reduction of mountain glaciers and snowpack from warming.
Those projections, he noted in the margins, are "straying from research
strategy into speculative findings/musings."

The Times also reported the words "significant and fundamental" were
added before the word "uncertainties" when describing the state of
climate science.

The White House denied that Cooney had watered down the impact of global
warming.

- - -


Well, of course. All the Busn misadminstation ever does when it is
caught lying, cheating, or stealing is DENY, DENY, DENY.

What a crock of crooks at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

I'll bet all those Bush guys own 36' Zimmerman style lobsta boats too!


The real crock of crooks
BRICKLAYERS

Former Iowa Secretary Sentenced for Embezzlement

On May 12, Amanda Kemmer, ex-secretary for Bricklayers Local 3 in the Des
Moines area, was given a 24-month prison sentence plus three years
probation, and was ordered to pay full restitution for embezzling union
funds. Kemmer pleaded guilty last December in federal court to stealing
more than $209,000 over the period January 1997-April 2004. She'd pocketed
about $175,000 of that by using a rubber stamp to write herself checks, and
raked in the rest by altering pay stubs and pilfering cash. (OLMS, 5/27).



BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION UNIONS

Indictment of Pittsburgh-Area Bookkeeper Unsealed

On May 11, an indictment against Patricia Longbon, ex-bookkeeper for the
AFL-CIO's Building and Construction Trades Department (BCTD) of Southwestern
Pennsylvania, was unsealed after a year-long delay. Longbon had been
indicted on 25 counts in connection with embezzlement of $10,157 of union
funds, and two counts of creating false financial records. The delay was
due to the difficulty in locating her. (OLMS, 5/27).



UNITED AUTO WORKERS (UAW)

Delaware Local Boss Sentenced for Embezzlement

On April 22, Gary Miller, former president of Local 2372 of the United
Auto Workers, in Delaware, was sentenced in U.S. District Court, Delaware
District, to three years probation for embezzlement of union funds. He also
was ordered to pay $7,947.28 in restitution and a $100 fine. Miller had
pleaded guilty back in January following an investigation by the Labor
Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards. (OLMS, 5/24).



IRON WORKERS

Philly Ex-Secretary Indicted for Embezzlement

On May 10, Barbara Wituschek, formerly office secretary for Local 161 of
the Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers, was
indicted by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
on two counts of embezzlement of union funds. In the latter part of 2001
Wituschek had written two checks to herself and her former husband worth a
combined $5,745.41. Local 161 represents more than 100 workers in the
Philadelphia metro area. (OLMS, 5/27).



--
John H

"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal,
murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a
particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to
miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to
his
continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass
destruction
.. So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is
real
..."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003