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Secretive U.S. climate skeptic panel tasked with writing contentious global warming report violated law, court rules
The U.S. Energy Department’s secret panel, made up of five climate change skeptics, was tasked with writing a sweeping report criticizing the consensus on global warming. The Trump administration used that report as the basis to propose a repeal of the landmark Endangerment Finding, a scientific determination that provides the legal basis for climate pollution regulations in the U.S.