The Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Hughes looks at a Congressional report that says the Bush administration was for regulating greenhouse gases before they were against it. Stephen Johnson, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, and fellow agency heads expressed support for curtailing the climate change-causing gases. But then Dick Cheney’s office stepped in — perhaps after the vice president met with Exxon Mobile and the American Petroleum Institute.

The Washington Post reported on much of this material Friday, when the EPA released the report of its staff scientists saying that global warming poses a dire threat. The common thread behind all these allegations is that they’re coming from Jason Burnett, a former EPA official. Burnett has gone to at least three different Congressional committees with stories about his time at EPA.

Burnett’s charges fall in line with suspicions about the Bush administration’s environmental policy. And no one, besides the White House press secretary, is questioning his credibility. Still, it would be nice if at least one more whistleblower could emerge.-MB

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