Trump's Energy Department disbands group that sowed doubt about climate change

"Energy Secretary Chris Wright has disbanded the Department of Energy's controversial Climate Working Group (CWG), which wrote a report that prompted dozens of independent scientists to issue a joint rebuttal saying the report was full of errors and misrepresented climate science. The disbanding was first reported by CNN and now NPR has confirmed that Wright wrote a letter on September 3rd to the five hand-picked members of the group, thanking them for their service."

"the suit alleges that Energy Secretary Chris Wright "quietly arranged for five hand-picked skeptics of the effects of climate change" to compile the government's climate report and violated the law by creating the report in secret with authors "of only one point of view." Wright wrote in the letter that the purpose of the group and its report was "to catalyze scientific and public debate" and that the result "exceeded my expectations." Wright concluded that with that goal met the CWG could now be dissolved."

Energy Secretary Chris Wright disbanded the Department of Energy's Climate Working Group after its report prompted a joint rebuttal accusing the report of errors and misrepresenting climate science. Wright wrote a September 3 letter to the five members, thanking them. The decision coincided with a hearing in a lawsuit by the Environmental Defense Fund and the Union of Concerned Scientists alleging Wright arranged for five skeptics to compile a government climate report in secret. Wright said the group's purpose was to catalyze scientific and public debate and that the result exceeded expectations. The DOE report was cited by the EPA in a proposal to roll back the endangerment finding that underpins federal climate regulations.

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