Lucas and Obernolte Continue to Question Participants in Administration’s Controversial Emissions Rule

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“To be clear, the Committee never received any documents from CEQ showing a broad review of other stakeholders. The documents the Committee received from CEQ show that CDP and SBTi were the only groups that CEQ engaged with in communications regarding standard setting and validation.

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If more documents do exist, as you now claim, then CEQ intentionally withheld these documents from the Committee. Please clarify if CEQ has indeed withheld important information from the Committee, and, if so, please provide all relevant information and documents to the Committee immediately.

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According to documents obtained by the Committee, at least one senior official at CEQ working on this proposed rule was a previous employee of CDP and steered the rule’s drafting to benefit CDP. Several emails between CDP staff and CEQ show that CDP was aware of these potential conflicts of interest and appears to have leveraged them for its benefit.”

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