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Posted on June 25, 2008

From the inbox (White House refused ...)The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency s conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency officials that an e-mail message containing the document would not be opened, senior E.P.A. officials said last week.Weird parallel: About 2 years ago I refused to accept a JEEM editor's conclusion that one of my papers could not be accepted for publication. I told them that an email message containing the rejection letter would not be opened. I have yet to see my paper in print but ...

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