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Adding one final insult to nearly eight years of injury, the Bush administration continued to defy the Supreme Court today by issuing a request for additional comments--an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking-on global warming regulations, rather than the so-called "endangerment determination" that the Court's ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA compelled and senior Environmental Protection Agency officials had argued for.

"If our nation is truly serious about regulating greenhouse gases, the Clean Air Act is the wrong tool for the job," EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson told reporters. "It is really at the feet of Congress." 

A front-page report in the Washington Post today details the tireless efforts of senior political appointees in the administration to prevent global warming regulations from being in put in place under President Bush.

David Bookbinder, Chief Climate Counsel for the Sierra Club, said, "Today's action caps off eight years of catastrophic negligence on the part of an increasingly irrelevant administration, and removes whatever shadow of a doubt that may have existed about whether it was going to fail to live up to its obligations to the American public, the law, and the Supreme Court to do something real on global warming. The American public, Congress, world leaders, and even career government officials are counting down the days until this administration leaves town and a new president undoes the damage done by President Bush and makes up for nearly a decade of lost time--time we didn't have to waste in the first place. And the first thing the next administration will do is toss the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking into the circular file"

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