Transparency Group Sues Biden White House over “Climate Information” record – Do you object?
From government accountability and oversight
Government transparency group Energy Policy Advocates (EPA) submitted suit on Thursday protested the Biden White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s refusal to provide correspondence regarding one of a growing number of initiatives aimed at countering opposition to the agenda. the politics of the government is “disinformation”.
Specifically, the EPA argues:
“The request is to search certain described correspondences from two named officials, Eric Lander and Jane Lubchenco, over an eight-week period, on any email accounts used at any time for work-related mail, addressed to one or more six or five named external parties, respectively. This request relates to an OSTP “event on combating climate change denial and delay” in which the Office invites political activists to discuss, such as possible social science explain political opposition to their demands. See, for exampleMaxine Joselow, “White House Schedules First Event on Combating Denial and Delaying Climate Change,” Washington Post, February 24, 2022.…
The records requested will inform the public of high-profile ethical disclosures at OSTP and the media coverage of it, as well as the origin of an event and campaign trending outside of OSTP. The meeting was described as seeking to counter the political opposition, one of many initiatives by the Biden administration that are seeking to do so by calling the opposition “disinformation” (“war campaigns”). Deliberate translation of misinformation is as insidious as it is covert.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/02/25/readout-of-white-house-climate-science-roundtable-on-countering-delayism-and-communicating-the-urgency- of-climate-action /), is the subject of considerable coverage by the national and international media.
The public deserves to know, without further delay, the source of the aforementioned inclined effort. “
The EPA complaint also notes that the group searched the emails described with outside activists on any of the email accounts, citing:
“In this request, one of the two officials, Ms. Lubchenco, was identified in the previous period as a political appointee in another agency in the previous administration who had continued to use the email account. “.edu” of his previous employer to the federal mail officer in connection with the job, and also Respondent’s detailed history, during that same period of administration, of employees who were found to have the practice of using informal email accounts for work-related correspondence. “
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