"Prompted by reports that [Bush] administration appointees, including a former oil industry lobbyist [3] who was chief of staff at the [White House] Council on Environmental Quality [4], edited climate change [5] reports or pressured scientists to tone down statements about the dangers of global warming," the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform [6] held a hearing. Committee chair Rep. Henry Waxman [7] (D-Calif.), along with Rep. Thomas Davis [8] (R-Va.), is pushing for the release of documents to determine "whether the White House's political staff is inappropriately censoring impartial government scientists." A recent report [9] by the Union of Concerned Scientists and Government Accountability Project [10] details cases of political interference in climate research. And in Canada, federal environment commissioner Johanne Gélinas has been "pushed out the door," after repeatedly calling for a "massive scale-up" of environmental initiatives, particularly on global warming, reports the [11] Toronto Star.