DOE CLIMATE PLAN SEEKS TO SHIELD SCIENTISTS FROM HILL 'RETRIBUTION'

The Department of Energy (DOE) has anonymously posted the comments it received on a draft strategy governing its Climate Change Technology Program (CCTP), in order to shield the commenters, many of whom are federal scientists, from "retribution" by powerful House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-TX), sources familiar with the plan say. Barton caused a furor last summer when he questioned the funding sources of several prominent climate scientists ( Clean Air Report, Aug. 25, 2005, p23). One...