Drawing from this analysis and the roundtable discussion, committee chair Joe Barton and
subcommittee chair Ed Whitfield launched an investigation of «hockey stick» authors Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley and Malcolm Hughes.
In the new Congress, enviros scored a major victory when California's Henry Waxman replaced Dingell as
chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and
Ed Markey of Massachusetts supplanted Boucher as
chair of the
subcommittee on energy and environment.