Bush Splits With Congress and States on Emissions

[DeepModem Mom]

Source: New York Times

Bush Splits With Congress and States on Emissions
By FELICITY BARRINGER and WILLIAM YARDLEY
Published: April 4, 2007

WASHINGTON, April 3 — A day after the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government had the authority to regulate heat-trapping gases, President Bush said he thought that the measures he had taken so far were sufficient.

But the court’s ruling was being welcomed by Congress and the states, which are already using the decision to speed their own efforts to regulate the gases that contribute to global climate change. As a result, Congress and state legislatures are almost certain to be the arenas for far-reaching and bruising lobbying battles.

Mr. Bush made it clear in remarks on Tuesday that he thought his proposal to increase automobile fuel efficiency was sufficient for the moment; he gave no indication he would ask the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate emissions of heat-trapping gases.

“Whatever we do,” he said, “must be in concert with what happens internationally.” He added, “Unless there is an accord with China, China will produce greenhouse gases that will offset anything we do in a brief period of time.”

But with Congress and the states more determined than ever to act, some of the nation’s largest industries — including automobile manufacturers and the oil companies that make their gasoline, and electric utilities and the coal companies that fire many of their boilers — now face the increasingly certain prospect of expensive controls on emissions of carbon dioxide, the most common heat-trapping gas associated with climate change....

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/washington/04climate.html?hp

[Skittles]

1. LOL, he is taking his cues from CHINA ????

N I C E

[madeline_con]

2. And what's with the "brief period of time" ?!

That dufus is looking to get raptured up pretty soon. :crazy:

[Erika]

3. He is ignoring the mandate of the Supreme Court

He'll do whatever he feels like doing and the hell with the Supreme Court and our country's well being. He needs to be impeached. He thinks he's the monarch of this country and we're his "very lowly" subjects. I wish the GOP would wake up.

[tiptoe]

4. Bush feels the US must close the Emissions Gap with China-- More Emissions, Not Less!

[Miss Chybil]

5. "Well, the Chinese are going to kill us sooner or later, anyway. So ,

f*ck it. We'll just keep poisoning ourselves!" ~ George Bush before the earth died.

[rodeodance]

6. god, he is really getting on my nerves lately!