For immediate release: July 11, 2008                                         
Contact: Emily Figdor, 202-683-1250
 
Statement of Emily Figdor
Environment America Federal Global Warming Program Director
On Bush EPA Climate Announcement
 
We are extremely disappointed by the Bush EPA’s failure to reduce the threat global warming poses to public health and welfare.  The White House has censored, ignored, and rewritten the clear scientific and legal facts in order to delay the day of reckoning when the oil, auto, and coal industries are held accountable for their pollution.  Now it’s up to the next Administration to right this wrong and finally start to tackle global warming with the many clean energy solutions that are at our fingertips.
 
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Environment America, a federation of state environment groups, is the new home for U.S. PIRG’s environmental work.