EPA's greenhouse gas ruling criticized within the government

In ruling last month that greenhouse gases posed health and safety risks, the Environmental Protection Agency brushed aside warnings from Bush administration holdovers who said the move was "likely to have serious economic consequences" for small businesses and the economy overall, according to documents obtained Tuesday.

Questioning EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson in a committee hearing Tuesday, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) called the memos

"a smoking gun, saying that your findings were political and not scientific."

Obama administration officials said the warnings, contained in memos from the Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy, didn't reflect current White House policy, and dismissed the dissent as reflecting the Bush administration's long-standing position on climate change and

"the work of someone who didn't get the memo that the old administration has come to an end"

[Now there's an argument based on science and not politics.]

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