Word: co2
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...plants, a change that would be worth a fortune in new coal consumption. The industry has already reaped benefits from the Bush team, with executives named to key jobs at Commerce, Interior and other departments. Coal representatives helped man Bush transition teams, putting them in position to lobby against CO2 controls from the inside. Just before the President flip-flopped on the greenhouse gas in March, he visited West Virginia and pledged that he would "convince many in the country who don't believe we can have a clean-air policy and burn coal at the same time...
...plants, a change that would be worth a fortune in new coal consumption. The industry has already reaped benefits from the Bush team, with executives named to key jobs at Commerce, Interior and other departments. Coal representatives helped man Bush transition teams, putting them in position to lobby against CO2 controls from the inside. Just before the President flip-flopped on the greenhouse gas in March, he visited West Virginia and pledged that he would "convince many in the country who don't believe we can have a clean-air policy and burn coal at the same time...
...those who need convincing are environmentalists. They view the Administration plans to spend $2 billion on "clean coal technology" as a wasteful subsidy to an industry that has long dodged pollution controls. Harmful emissions have been reduced 70% since 1970, but critics argue there has been no cut in CO2 emissions, a major culprit in global warming...
Bush's decision on CO2 emissions could have a catalyzing effect and cause other countries to take needed steps [SPECIAL REPORT, April 9], but what better place to start instituting change than in the U.S.? American citizens are in a unique position to create a groundswell telling the President that he must be accountable to the people and that he and those who propelled him to power cannot hold the entire world hostage to his economic vision. KATHLEEN HANLEY Rondebosch, South Africa...
...Lord, why didn't you give Bush enough brains to understand that it is in the best interests of the people of the U.S. to put a limit on the amount of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere? We in Europe also don't want to hurt our economy by putting a cap on greenhouse-gas emissions. We are educated enough, however, to understand that we have to do this now to avoid serious environmental and economic disasters in the future. ERICH WACKER Heilbronn, Germany