President Bush made headlines today when he offered new policy guidelines on climate change.

In Newsday, NRDC President Frances Beinecke observed that "the president has just proposed a path on global warming weaker than the campaign pledge he made in September 2000 and broke three months into office." In an article distributed by the Knight Ridder News Service, Beinecke points out that "not content with blocking action over the last eight years, this president is trying to lock in pollution growth for the next 15." David Hawkins of the NRDC Climate Center quips with the Washington Times, saying that "the only good news" about the President’s speech "is that no one will pay attention to it. It's totally irrelevant."

On the west coast, Karen Garrison of the NRDC Oceans program called for public support for California marine reserves in the lead editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle while Dr. Gina Solomon of the NRDC health and toxics program sought to calm fears by telling the Chicago Tribune that there’s nothing overly scary coming out of our taps. Solomon quickly noted, however, that we do need increased research into the effects of pharmaceuticals in drinking water.

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