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...make of the Bush Administration's early promises about protecting the environment? The President's pledges to Congress that he would clean up toxic industrial sites and provide more money to the national parks were cautious, inoffensive stuff. But his new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Christine Todd Whitman, is talking a much bolder game. Day after day last week, she spoke of getting the sulfur out of diesel fuel, tightening pollution controls on power plants and even curbing emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas that causes global warming, which is the biggest environmental problem of them...
...will defy expectations and become a green President, but he's definitely getting an environmental earful from some of the players on his team. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill puts global warming on the same level as nuclear war and spoke out about the danger in a Cabinet meeting. Whitman has gone public with her concerns. "The climate is changing more rapidly than we've seen in the past," she told TIME, "and there are human actions that are contributing to what we're seeing...
...wasn't more of Whitman's agenda in the speech? The day before Bush's address, word leaked from the White House that the speech had a line on an initiative to force power plants to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Opponents protested, and the reference was apparently dropped. Bush also neglected to mention that his budget calls for a 6.4% decrease in the EPA's projected spending...
...Whitman seems to have persuaded Bush to build on some of the unfinished efforts of the previous Administration. The rule to get more than 90% of the sulfur out of diesel fuel, which could prevent tens of thousands of cases of bronchitis each year and about 8,300 premature deaths, was proposed by Bill Clinton. Another set of Clinton's air-pollution regulations, stalled for years by lawsuits, finally won unanimous support last week from the U.S. Supreme Court. In a strong opinion from a surprising source, conservative Antonin Scalia, the court backed the EPA's authority to set tough...
...jobs in the Bush administration for token Democrats from current forerunners Zell Miller and John Breaux, not only applauded when other Democrats sat on their hands, but even gave several standing ovations. Across the aisle, Bush's cabinet tried to soften its image. John Ashcroft and Christine Todd Whitman applauded the end of racial profiling as if he hadn't spoken at Bob Jones University and she hadn't posed for pictures while smiling and frisking a black man. From the podium, Bush too sent messages. His attempts at bipartisanship included announcing new funds to fight cancer and making everybody...