Senate Environment Panel Closes Climate Hearing To Cool Partisan Rhetoric

Senate Environment & Public Works Committee (EPW) chair James Inhofe (R-OK) says he is holding this week's hearing on climate change issues behind closed doors to limit partisan rhetoric on the issue, at the same time that he is using the hearing to assert his committee's jurisdiction on greenhouse gas issues. Inhofe said in an interview May 23 that the environment committee roundtable discussion on greenhouse gas technologies slated for May 25 will be closed to the public in part...