President Bush's Environmental Protection Agency will not be regulating carbon dioxide [ark | moreark | more2ark2] under the Clean Air Act [search] as the Supreme Court has ordered. In typical style, the Bush administration has unveiled a plan for the EPA to do so, meeting court requirements, while disavowing any plans for implemention.This is but the final act in an abysmal string of failures to lead on an issue that threatens massive social dislocation and ecological collapse.
The Toxic Texan promised in his first campaign to regulate carbon dioxide as an air pollutant [search], and quickly reneged when in office. Bush withdrew from Kyoto [search] and then worked for years to obstruct international consensus in his absence. For years his administration has obstructed and censored...
For seven years the Bush administration has used every tool at its disposal to obstruct efforts to address climate change [search]. Now this immoral do nothing climate policy is threatened by both a renewed national push by the Senate to reduce emissions through a trading system [ark | more2ark2], and an united international community demanding the United States engage in post-Kyoto negotiations [ark] in Bali. Bush and other Republicans resist mandatory emission cuts on the basis of alleged economic costs and using the red herring that poor nations were not also required to cut emissions. The Bush cabal has lied about the science and obstructed national and international efforts to meaningfully cut greenhouse gas emissions. In pure ideological delay-tactics, Bush spokespersons assure us...
President Bush has announced he will host talks with government leaders on climate change [news search] some three days after the United Nations holds crucial climate talks in September. Fifteen leading economic powers and carbon emitters from the industrialized and developing world [more | more2] have been invited from September 27-28 to discuss reducing carbon emissions. Golly. If the Bush administration really has had a change of heart on the need for mandatory carbon and other greenhouse gas emission reductions, it would be fantastic. I would not hold my breathe however. This administration has been criminally negligent in not only pulling the United States out of productively participating in international climate talks and agreements; but has sought to obstruct progress by the rest...
On behalf of those of us who are wallowing in post-Soviet, or post-colonial or post-whatever shitholes, trying to beg, cajole and convince the deeply oligarchical that rule of law means "rule by laws, not of men," thanks heaps to The Decider for this! Best. Gift. Ever."Both critics and defenders of this
investigation have made important points. I have made my own
evaluation. In preparing for the decision I am announcing today, I have
carefully weighed these arguments and the circumstances surrounding
this case....
...I respect the jury’s verdict. But I have concluded [emph. added] that the prison
sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive. Therefore, I am commuting the
portion of Mr. Libby’s sentence that required him to spend thirty
months in prison."Fucking banana......