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Thursday, January 19, 2006

Environment - Ex-EPA Chiefs Blame Bush in Global Warming

The Washington Post is reporting today:

WASHINGTON -- Six former heads of the Environmental Protection Agency _ five Republicans and one Democrat _ accused the Bush administration Wednesday of neglecting global warming and other environmental problems.

"I don't think there's a commitment in this administration," said [Indiana's] Bill Ruckelshaus, who was EPA's first administrator when the agency opened its doors in 1970 under President Nixon and headed it again under President Reagan in the 1980s.

Russell Train, who succeeded Ruckelshaus in the Nixon and Ford administrations, said slowing the growth of "greenhouse" gases isn't enough.

"We need leadership, and I don't think we're getting it," he said at an EPA-sponsored symposium centered around the agency's 35th anniversary. "To sit back and just push it away and say we'll deal with it sometime down the road is dishonest to the people and self-destructive."

See also this Post story.

[Thanks to Indiana Daily Insight for the heads up this morning.]

Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 19, 2006 06:50 AM
Posted to Environment