Bush should have kept his word...
Bush's CO2 Flip-Flop: The Surprising Truth
Everyone thought the president was caving to big energy. Guess what? Energy companies feel betrayed, too
BY CHUCK SUDETIC | May 10, 2001
Last fall, it seemed that George W. Bush had found religion on global warming, declaring in his campaign that he favored putting mandatory limits on carbon-dioxide emissions. He promised to act – if not out of personal conviction, then at least to outflank Al Gore on the issue. After he took office in January, his Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Christie Whitman, traveled the world assuring America's allies that the Bush administration was committed to reducing the U.S. share of world CO2 emissions.
Then, on March 13th, President Bush announced that he does not believe the science on global warming. He threw out his carbon-dioxide promise and reiterated his opposition to the Kyoto protocol, the only international process aimed at averting a potential climate disaster. Two weeks later, Whitman announced that, so far as the Bush administration was concerned, the Kyoto agreement was dead. But surprisingly, many high-ranking officials in the industries that Bush was trying to protect say that he made a big mistake.
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