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Global Warming

 

Press Releases

Administration Asked to Detail Cost to Jobs, Economy under EPA Decisions (November 19, 2009)

Capping jobs, trading in misery — wrong answers to global warming (September 29, 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)

Republicans Demand EPA Administrator Jackson Give Full Response on Suppression of Dissent (July 16, 2009)

We’re Investigating Bottles of Water Instead of EPA? (July 8, 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)

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Letters

Letter to Secretary Locke Regarding his Position on Carbon Tariffs (September 30, 2009)

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)

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)

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)

Response by Chairman Wellinghoff to Letter Regarding His Position on Nuclear/Coal Energy (May 13, 2009)

Responses from FERC to Barton, Walden Letter on CCS (May 11, 2009)

Letter to FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff Regarding His Position on Nuclear Energy (May 8, 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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