Ecologist: US climate sceptic lobbyists’ attempts to stop greenhouse gas emissions from being labelled as a pollutant were last week rejected by The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Climate sceptics and oil and coal lobby groups, including the Peabody Energy Company, had challenged the EPA’s ruling from December 2009 that climate change caused by GHG emissions was a threat to public health and the environment. Citing the University of East Anglia ‘climategate’ controversy they said the …