Article contains important information on the Bush administration's policy and attitude toward the ramifications of greenhouse gases. By purposefully suppressing and/or ignoring input from the EPA, the administration essentially neglects the problem and bequeaths the solutions to the next administration.

Well written investigative story on the latest tactic of the WH - do not open email because it contains a recommendation they do not like that is in response to a Supreme Court ruling. Do not open and wait to get the watered down response that the WH wants from the EPA which is due this week. The story lacked in background on precedence for this childish response of not opening emails and to see if a hard copy of an important document was sent via mail. Is this normal for the EPA not to send hard copies of important documents required by the Supreme Court especially when they know the recipient may not like what is contained in it? Who else in the government was the document sent to and did they open it? In the mean time, CA ... More »

The White House refused to accept the Supreme Court mandated report from the EPA because it condemned the Bush administration’s handling of the environment at a time when Bushies were falling all over themselves giving special interests what they were demanding vis-a-vis the environment? Of course, this is the Bush administration. But to send it as an E-mail which ends up in E-mail purgatory? Is there no other way to deliver reality news to non-reality people? It was December, couldn’t they have attached it to a lump of coal and hung it on the national Christmas tree? Or pitched the lump through the West Wing window? History is going to have a field day with the governance by this bunch.

This is unbelievable--why does the Bush administration constantly hide from and malign the truth? I can agree that global warming will require a 'global effort', but with the US one of the major consumers and polluters in the world, if we just sit on the sidelines and do nothing because it might due harm to industry and the economy is just foolish. The next administration WILL have it's work cut out to try to catch up with what has to be done to begin to alleviate global warming.