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Republicans on the committee are again pressing EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to explain why and how a career EPA official’s views were suppressed when he questioned Democrats’ policy on global warming. More here.

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Press Releases

Barton, Upton Introduce Nuclear Recycling Bill (July 30, 2009)

How Congress’s drive to stop global warming is fueling China’s drive to out-compete the U.S. (July 22, 2009)

Republicans Ask Locke to Explain Administration Position on Americans Making Amends to World for Global Warming (July 22, 2009)

Have You Heard? WSJ: The EPA Silences a Climate Skeptic (July 3, 2009)

Have You Heard? WSJ: The Climate Change Climate Change (July 1, 2009)

Draft of Report Suppressed at EPA Shows Why Agency’s Career Staff Challenged CO2 Endangerment Ruling (June 26, 2009)

Barton: Global Warming Bill Will Send U.S. Back to 1875 (June 26, 2009)

Suppressed EPA Staff Work on EPA Endangerment Finding? Let’s Get the Facts Out! (June 25, 2009)

Barton, Walden Ask Committee Democrats to Investigate on EPA’s Suppression of CO2 Report (June 25, 2009)

Barton Confronts EPA Politicals Over Suppression of Economist’s Critical Report on CO2 Endangerment (June 24, 2009)

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Letters

Response from EPA Administrator Jackson Regarding the CO2 Endangerment Finding (July 10, 2009)

Response from Chairman Waxman Regarding an Investigation into EPA's CO2 Endangerment Finding (June 29, 2009)

Response from EPA regarding the Anne Sholtz Emissions-Trading Fraud Case (June 26, 2009)

Letter to Chairman Waxman and Chairman Stupak Requesting an Investigation into EPA's CO2 Endangerment Finding (June 25, 2009)

Letter to EPA Administrator Jackson Regarding the Suppression of a Staff Report (June 24, 2009)

Response from Secretary Solis Regarding 'Green Jobs' (June 10, 2009)

Response from Secretary Chu Regarding 'Green Jobs' (June 5, 2009)

Response from Secretary Chu Regarding the Future of Nuclear Waste and Yucca Mountain (June 1, 2009)

CBO Response: Preliminary Examination of the Updated Waxman-Markey Legislation (May 21, 2009)

Letter to CBO Requesting Cost Estimates of the Updated Waxman-Markey Legislation (May 19, 2009)

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Republican Views

Section-by-Section Analysis of H.R. 2454, ACES Legislation, as Reported on June, 5 2009 (June 23, 2009)

Republican Views on the American Clean Energy and Security Act (June 8, 2009)

Executive Summary of Waxman-Markey Climate Legislation (April 22, 2009)

Section-By-Section Analysis of Waxman-Markey Climate Legislation (April 22, 2009)

U.S. Representative Joe Barton

U.S. Representative Joe L. Barton
Joe Barton was first elected to congress by the people of Texas' Sixth Congressional District in 1984. In 2004, he was selected by his House colleagues to be the chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce...
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