Bush Takes a Final Swipe, and Salute, at CO_2 Emission Curbs

摘要

In the end, he just couldn't commit. Last week, the Bush Administration essentially ended its tumultuous relationship with climate change, unveiling two decisions that all but ensure that President George W. Bush will leave office without making a binding commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions. On 9 July, Bush and the other leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrial powers signed a largely symbolic pledge to help trim global emissions by 2050, rejecting stricter language. Then, on 11 July, the Administration announced that it would not use the nation's leading clean-air law to regulate heat-trapping gases, effectively sidestepping a U.S. Supreme Court decision.