(click here)The We Campaign is a project of The Alliance for Climate Protection -- a nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. The goal of the Alliance is to build a movement that creates the political will to solve the climate crisis.
Like nominate the President of Sierra Club or The Natural Resouce Defense Council. Let's put someone at the EPA that can make peace with all the lawsuits and move the country forward.
Enough already.
We need someone responsible at the Interior Department as well. It's time to move on this already !
Heck with the money the government saves on Environmental Lawsuits it could pay off the national debt.
Barack Obama (L) and Al Gore
The Philadelphia Inquirer pays attention (Please Click Here)
Posted on Sun, Dec. 7, 2008
An Eroding Mission at EPA
The Bush administration has weakened the agency charged with safeguarding health and the environment.
By John Shiffman and John Sullivan
Inquirer Staff Writers
WASHINGTON - On Dec. 5, 2007, EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson prepared to send the White House an extraordinary document. It declared that climate change imperiled the public welfare - a decision that would trigger the nation's first mandatory global-warming regulations.
Johnson, a career scientist, knew that his draft would meet with resistance from antiregulatory ideologues at the White House, but he believed the science was solid.
According to confidential records reviewed by The Inquirer, Johnson cited strong evidence: rises in sea level, extreme hot and cold days, ecosystem changes, melting glaciers, and more. Minor doubts about long-term effects, he wrote, were not enough to alter his conclusion.
Two sentences in Johnson's draft stood out. In sum: The U.S. emits more greenhouse gases from cars than most countries do from all pollution sources. This fact is so compelling that it alone supports The Administrator's finding....
