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...multiple emissions strategy would lead to an even more dramatic shift from coal to natural gas for electric power generation and significantly higher electricity prices," Bush wrote in his March 13 letter to Chuck Hagel informing Congress of his change in policy. A few days later, Christie Whitman (whose own wishful thinking had probably gotten Bush into the mess in the first place) finally climbed on board, telling the National Press Club the country was "in the midst of a national energy crisis - this is a long way from being over...
First, consider the problem of personnel--specifically, the newly confirmed director of the EPA, former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman. Whitman has been what Vice President Dick Cheney called a "good soldier," or, to avoid mixing metaphors, a loyal employee, and has made a point of talking up the administration's commitment to reducing carbon dioxide. Employees who go to bat for their bosses are a business asset. Yet Bush has seriously compromised the credibility of Whitman by opening her decisions to reversal by the president. When trying to seek compliance from industry on environmental regulations, Whitman will always...
...maintain its current lifestyle and consumption habits, saving the planet may have to wait. Cleaning up the environment will come at a cost to corporate profits and to consumers, and despite what he said on the campaign trail - indeed, despite what administration officials such as EPA chief Christie Whitman were saying as recently as 10 days ago - President Bush has now made clear that he believes the gain isn't worth the cost. Back to you, America...
...China and other developing nations, and he isn't likely to reverse himself unless the treaty is altered in negotiations this summer. In the meantime, he may be persuaded to take smaller steps. Even though he deleted the greenhouse allusion from his speech, language in his budget suggests, and Whitman confirms, that he is still thinking of supporting legislation being drafted in Congress that would force power plants to reduce their production of four pollutants: mercury, nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide and, yes, carbon dioxide...
DIED. A.R. AMMONS, 75, gregarious, self-effacing poet whose deceptively simple riffs on the relationship between Man and Nature have been likened to those of the 19th century transcendentalists Whitman and Emerson; of cancer; in Ithaca, N.Y. Ammons began dabbling in poetry aboard a Navy destroyer during World War II. In the following decades, he wrote nearly 30 books and won virtually every American prize awarded for poetry...