Background
He did it to us again. President Bush and his political appointees took another backward step on global warming in December, when his EPA denied California and 12 other states the right to adopt clean car standards that require automakers to reduce pollution from cars and trucks by 30 percent by 2016.
We're challenging this insane
decision in the courts, but that could take years—years we can't afford
to wait, given the narrow window of opportunity we have to prevent the
worst effects of global warming. That's why we're also pushing the
major presidential candidates to pledge to reverse this decision on Day
One of the next administration.
Won't Barack Obama, Hillary
Clinton or even John McCain do this on their own and in their own time?
Maybe. But we've seen before how politicians weaken or compromise once
they're elected and once the powerful special interests start to wield
their power and influence. We need to get the political winds blowing
in the right direction on this issue and we need to make it happen now.
