Reply #32: White House official resigns after climate documents flap (ah ha)

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hey this was in the most viewed articles on yahoo. People ARE interested in climate--contrary to what the WH says-or the news media who seldom has it on their radar screen!!
Article says WH is 'embarrassed" te he---staff starting to resign!! good news!!


White House official resigns after climate documents flap

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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) - A senior White House official involved in a damaging controversy over his deleting of dire climate change warnings from US government reports has abruptly resigned, but the White House denies his departure had anything to do with the flap.

Philip Cooney, chief of staff of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, stepped down Friday without disclosing his future employment plans, announced presidential spokeswoman Erin Healy.

"He has accumulated many weeks on leave, and so he decided to resign and take the summer off to spend some time with his family," Healy told AFP.

She added the resignation was "completely unrelated" to the release of documents this past week that show Cooney had given a thorough editing to US government documents on global warming -- in what appeared to be an effort to make them look less dramatic.