Senate Environment Chairman Renews Assault On Climate Change Science

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman James Inhofe (R-OK) -- a leading opponent of greenhouse gas controls -- is planning to hold a hearing that will question climate change science after two other Senate committees held recent hearings where scientists backed mandatory emission limits. Congressional sources view the move by Inhofe as an attempt to assert his committee's jurisdiction over the issue and build a public record opposing climate controls. But at the same time environment committee Democrats are...