The environmental community is stepping up pressure
on the White House to acknowledge and take action to counter global
warming. A trio of environmental groups filed suit against the Bush
administration in federal court last week for failing to produce a
required report on the impact of warming on the nation’s
environment, economy and public health. The Center for Biological
Diversity, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace teamed up to file the
suit, claiming the federal government is obliged to complete such a
report every four years under the terms of Global Chance Research
Act of 1990.
Environmentalists maintain that the Bush
administration purposefully ignored its mandate to produce the
report, which should have been completed in November 2004, because
of its reticence to show the latest scientific evidence justifying
federal action on preventing global warming. According to the
plaintiffs’ complaint, no updated report means that policymakers and
the public “are without one of the most important tools to grapple
with this complex, potentially overwhelming and yet all-important
issue.”
Specifically, the groups are calling on the
federal Climate Change Science Program to issue the now overdue
assessment of the most recent scientific data on global warming and
projections for its future impacts. Perhaps not coincidentally, the
suit was filed as pro-environment Democrats took back the Congress
and delegates from around the world convened in Kenya to discuss
political solutions to global warming at a United Nations climate
conference.
Source: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15730833/
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