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George Bush has come under heavy fire for failing to live up to his promise to be the Environmental President. Last month he infuriated environmentalists by arguing that action against the threat of global warming should wait for more research. The man behind that go-slow position was John Sununu. An announcement by the U.S. delegate to a United Nations meeting in Geneva last week came as a further shock: the U.S. will oppose the creation of a new $100 million fund to help developing countries avoid using chlorofluorocarbons...
...least there is some legitimate controversy over the science of global warming. There is virtually none when it comes to ozone depletion. So why is the U.S. balking, when the country's share would amount to no more than $25 million over the next three years? Sununu and Budget Director Richard Darman contend that the economic costs of protecting the environment have been overlooked. They fear the precedent of turning money over to international bodies that may try to dictate how countries, including the U.S., respond to environmental problems...
Such rumors are purposeful leaks that attempt to make George Bush look less conservative on abortion. Little gets out of the White House that Chief of Staff John Sununu doesn't want out of the White House. The political controversies surrounding recent setbacks in abortion rights make Republicans a bit nervous being wholeheartedly anti-abortion. People might believe that George Bush is more liberal if we believe that his wife is more liberal...
DEMOCRATS? WHAT DEMOCRATS? White House chief of staff John Sununu has dropped his practice of polling an informal band of outside political consultants about potential threats from the Democrats. He still surveys these advisers regularly about other topics, but with the Democrats in disarray, the White House no longer fears any strategies they may be devising...
...economic consequences of forcing sudden, drastic curbs in fossil-fuel use. From the Administration's point of view, draconian action seems highly debatable so long as the scientific evidence for the greenhouse effect is sketchy. "We are not at the point where we can bet the economy," says a Sununu aide...