WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Joe Barton posed a series of pointed questions Wednesday to Environmental Protection Administrator Lisa Jackson over a career employee’s report that appears to have been suppressed by her and the White House.

An internal report, written by an EPA economist, evidently ran counter to the Obama administration’s position on carbon dioxide posing a global warming danger, and was suppressed by the EPA as the endangerment decision was being formulated.

In an e-mail dated 3/17/2009, Dr. Alan Carlin’s boss at EPA informed him that his report would not be forwarded within the agency. “The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision.”

“I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office,” Carlin was warned by Dr. Al McGartland, director of the EPA’s National Center for Environmental Economics.

A copy of the Barton letter and EPA e-mails can be found here.