Washington, DC — In an unprecedented action, representatives for more than 10,000 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency scientists are calling on Congress to take immediate action against global warming, according to a petition released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The petition also calls for an end to censorship of agency scientists and other specialists on topics of climate change and the effects of air pollution.Didn't they see the memo? "Stay the course". Methinks they need to wait two more years.
Interestingly,
The filing of this petition coincides with today’s oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on a case (Massachusetts v. EPA, Case No. 05-1120) brought by states seeking to force the Bush administration to regulate greenhouse gases that fuel global warming under the Clean Air Act.This should be a huge priority for the new congress. If you frame it right then it could be bad for republicans if Bush vetos environment legislation also. He got killed on his stem cell veto, and perhaps this could be another on. What do the polls say about American's position on climate change? Btw, of Canadians, 77% (or something like that) believe that their government should meet or beat Kyoto targets. Of course, Canada has a new conservative PM who launched a pathetic "clean air" bill that does absolutely nothing. Happily, however, he is getting uniformly criticized for it.
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