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"You may have heard that our budget was cut by 66%." Al McGartland, PhD, Director, National Center for Environmental Economics, to Alan Carlin, et al.

"... your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision."

, "I can see only one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office." and,

"I don't want you to spend any additional EPA time on climate change. No papers, no research etc,....",

"I would like you to work with marrietta to ge that grants data base in place.", and

"Also, I'd like you to update part of the market incentives report - inventorying the market incentive programs undertaken by the states...."

With the other text here, it is clear that Alan Carlin's job is being threatened if he doesn't get on the bandwagon with the rest of them, and he's being assigned what may be inappropriate tasks as punishment for pushing the issue.