Wyoming’s U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, responding to a question during a recent town hall event in Pinedale, said she is “strongly in support of repealing the endangerment finding.” The landmark 2009 doctrine classified greenhouse gases as pollutants and legally obliged federal agencies to regulate their emissions under the Clean Air Act.

The Republican congresswoman added, “The endangerment finding is absolutely based upon false science.”

A chorus of boos rose from the crowd assembled on July 29, along with guffaws and several people shouting, “No!”

Hageman continued over the outburst: “CO2 [carbon dioxide] is not a pollutant. As far as the validity and the science that was the foundation for that, they cooked the books.”

Many of her Sublette County constituents weren’t having it. The b

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