What's All This Fuss About?

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Environment

Top-level Republican insiders have finally gotten the message that their anti-environmental agenda isn't playing well with the American people. Some insiders are so afraid of another purge of anti-environmental Republicans in this fall's congressional elections that they've created their very own "grassroots environmental" organization, called "Coalition of Republican Environmental Advocates" (CREA): a transparent attempt to fool voters who care about environmental protection. Read on...

Last week, the Bush administration sent the United Nations a report that for the first time clearly acknowledged the existence of global warming and the role humans play in causing this phenomenon by burning fossil fuels. Read on...

Bush's sudden enthusiasm for hydrogen fuel-cell technology is laudable, of course. His proposal of $1.2 billion for additional research is also very nice. (Evidently the "free market" alone doesn't invariably produce what society needs.) He even offered a vision of a better future: "With a new national commitment, our scientists and engineers will overcome obstacles to taking these cars from laboratory to showroom, so that the first car driven by a child born today could be powered by hydrogen, and pollution-free." Read on...

 

June 2, 2004