Clean Water Action President John De Cock Statement on President's Planned Climate Speech

Today's Rose Garden climate speech by President Bush is just the
latest attempt to run out the clock on global warming without taking
meaningful action. The President's failure today to endorse mandatory
limits on carbon dioxide emissions means he has left this challenge for
the next President and Congress.

President Bush is correct today in identifying the need to deal with
carbon emissions generally, and emissions from coal plants in
particular. But the President largely remains where he was eight years
ago when he pledged to restrict carbon dioxide from coal plants, and
instead caved into big energy companies and did nothing.

During the last eight years of voluntary programs, U.S. greenhouse
gas emissions continued to rise, and today's announcement of
long-range, non-binding goals will do nothing to reverse that trend.
For their last few months in office, Clean Water Action calls on the
Bush administration to stop interfering with efforts by states to move
ahead with clean cars emissions standards, stop censoring the science
of global warming, and drop their opposition to mandatory federal
limits on global warming pollution.

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