Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
So today we learned an odd new twist in the White House's refusal to let EPA regulate global warming pollution under the Clean Air Act. Felicity Barringer reports in the New York Times today that last December officials of the...
Posted by David Doniger in U.S. Law and Policy
UPDATE: A link to our filing is here. One year ago today, on April 2, 2007, the Supreme Court slapped down the Bush administration’s legal strategy for doing nothing to curb global warming. In a landmark ruling, Massachusetts v. EPA, the...
Posted by David Doniger in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
John Adams, our second president, famously said: "Facts are stubborn things." In a 1988 slip of the tongue, Ronald Reagan said: "Facts are stupid things." For the Bush administration, the slip of the tongue has been going on for seven...
Posted by David Doniger in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Seven years ago, incoming President Bush brashly withdrew America from the international effort to stop global warming. Then national security advisor Condaleeza Rice told European diplomats that the Kyoto treaty was dead. That only galvanized the rest of the world...
Posted by David Doniger in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, together with Senators Diane Feinstein and Daniel Inouye and other leading Senators, have pulled off agreement on the first significant increase in fuel economy standards since 1985.Under the new fuel economy legislation hammered out on Friday, new...
