Who is in Charge of Regulating Climate Change?

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Who is in Charge of Regulating Climate Change?

The Environmental Protection Agency signaled this week that it was prepared to comply with a Congressional request for all documents, including communications with the White House, concerning its decision to block California from imposing limits on heat-trapping gases. Last week, the agency administrator, Stephen L. Johnson, rejected California’s request to put into effect rules on tailpipe emissions of heat-trapping greenhouses gases like carbon dioxide. As many as 16 states would have been free to do likewise if California had received approval. Why should states and cities take action on global warming if the federal government won't?

Ahnold's Folly

Shikha Dalmia, The New York Post

Even if the whole world adopted a 45 mpg fuel-economy standard, global temperature would drop by only five-hundredths of a degree Fahrenheit by 2100.

The Growth of Local Power is a Bright Spot in Seven Bleak Years of Bush

Guardian America

The Bush administration has notoriously dragged its feet on doing anything about climate change, and it will now be dragged along by the states, themselves prodded forward by citizens.