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Issues: Global Warming

The Bush Administration's Global Warming Policies

The Bush administration has grudgingly conceded that global warming poses a significant and costly threat to the United States, as scientists have acknowledged for some time. Yet this White House continues to reject action to reduce global warming pollution. It has refused to require cuts in heat-trapping carbon dioxide pollution, significantly raise fuel economy requirements, or hold companies accountable for improving their energy efficiency and using wind, solar and other renewable energy sources. As these analyses show, the Bush administration's tired calls for still more study and voluntary pollution cuts won't get the job done.

Voluntary Efforts Won't Work: Why We Need Mandatory Limits on Carbon Dioxide
July 2005
This analysis shows that the federal government's policy of addressing global warming through voluntary programs is ineffective -- and that only binding limits on global warming pollution can help solve this urgent problem.

"Emissions Intensity" -- Pollution by Any Other Name?
July 2005
This analysis shows that while the Bush administration's plan may help improve emissions intensity, total emissions will keep on rising, leading to more global warming.

Untangling the Accounting Gimmicks in White House Global Warming, Pollution Plans
February 2002
A analysis of President Bush's voluntary global warming plan and his "clear skies" proposal. In both cases, the president has used deceptive accounting and false comparisons to disguise more pollution, not less.

An Open Letter to President Bush: Don't Turn Your Back on Global Warming
April 2001
This letter from NRDC president John H. Adams to President George W. Bush expresses NRDC's strong disagreement with the Bush administration's policies on global warming, and urges President Bush to reevaluate them.

Bush Administration Errs on Kyoto Global Warming Agreement
April 2001
In this analysis NRDC sets the record straight on a number of seriously flawed arguments President Bush and members of his administration used in renouncing the Kyoto Protocol, the international accord to limit global warming emissions.

Bush's Flawed Arguments Against Regulating Carbon Pollution
March 2001
President Bush backed away from his campaign pledge to seek cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide as part of a strategy to regulate together, rather than separately, the four primary air pollutants emitted by power plants. Here, NRDC experts let the air out of the president's arguments.

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