White House environmental aide resigns. This caught my eye while pouring over the New York Times at a midwestern Starbucks this morning. Published as just a brief graph in the paper's National Briefing summary, one might barely have noticed it:

WASHINGTON

EDITOR OF CLIMATE REPORTS RESIGNS Philip A. Cooney, chief of staff to President Bush's Council on Environmental Quality, has resigned, White House officials said. Mr. Cooney's resignation came two days after documents revealed that he had edited government climate reports in ways that cast doubt on the link between greenhouse-gas emissions and rising temperatures. Mr. Cooney has no scientific training. Dana Perino, a deputy White House press secretary, said the decision was unrelated to revelations about the documents. Mr. Cooney did not respond to e-mail or phone messages left at his home. Andrew C. Revkin (NYT)

Cooney's resignation unrelated to the revelations in the documents? Come on.

Posted by Laura at June 11, 2005 11:36 AM