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Thursday, April 20, 2006
Environment - First EPA chief urges action to reduce greenhouse gases
The AP is reporting:
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) -- William Ruckleshaus, the first head of the Environmental Protection Agency, says it's time for America to get serious about reducing greenhouse gas emissions because global warming is real.While there is legitimate debate over how best to address climate change, he said studies have overwhelmingly concluded that human industrial activity contributes to global warming.
"It's time to get serious and stop arguing about whether it's real or not. It's real," he said Wednesday during an environmental symposium on the Indiana University campus.
Ruckleshaus said the United States should be leading the world in taking steps to cut emissions of gases released by the burning of fossil fuels to make energy. He said that unless the U.S. acts, "it's unlikely the rest of the world will either."
Ruckleshaus, an Indiana native, became the first EPA administrator after the agency was created under the Nixon administration. He headed EPA from 1970 to 1973 and again from 1983 to 1985 under the Reagan administration.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on April 20, 2006 05:00 PM
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