Bush Administration Puts Hands Over Eyes, Chants LaLaLa I Can't Hear You!
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 06.25.08
This is probably the most uploaded picture on the web today, as we shake our heads at reading that the White House's method of dealing with information it doesn't want to hear: It doesn't open the e-mail. No matter that the Supreme Court told the Environmental Protection Agency to determine if greenhouse gases were harmful; they just, as Chris put it, "put their hands over their eyes and chanted "la la la la I can't hear you" or perhaps, Elvis Presley's Return To Sender.
The ever-so-helpful EPA put the report through the wash and spin cycle until it came up clean enough for the Government's delicate sensibilities. According to the New York TImes, Over the past five days, the White House successfully put pressure on the E.P.A. to eliminate large sections of the original analysis that supported regulation, including a finding that tough regulation of motor vehicle emissions could produce $500 billion to $2 trillion in economic benefits over the next 32 years. Now the report is about to be released and unlike the first document, comes to no conclusions.
Words, and EPA administrator Stephen Johnson, fail us. ::New York Times, and Jon Taplin
Thirsty for more? Check out these related articles:
- Introducing Green Your House: This New Online World Gives Kids First-Hand Experience with Global Warming
- The World's Most Cited Climate Change Denier: The World's Leading Climate Scientist?
- An Environmentalist Walks Into a Bar...10 Green-ish Jokes to Be Reused, Recycled, Repurposed
- Drilling for Gas: Home-Grown Energy Isn't Necessarily So Green
- Just Say No to Polite Small Talk This Thanksgiving: How to Handle 7 Hairy Topics and Keep the Peace
- Erin Brockovich Speaks Out About Toxic Chemical Policy Reform (Interview)
Comments ()
