Six former heads of the Environmental Protect Agency ( five of them
Republicans ( accused the Bush administration Wednesday of ignoring
efforts to curb global warming and other environmental problems. The
ex-EPA chiefs were attending a gathering to commemorate the agency’s
35th year anniversary. The Bush administration has rejected a slew of
national and global environmental measures, including the Kyoto
protocol, which sets mandatory controls on carbon dioxide. Lee Thomas,
who served under the Ronald Reagan administration, said: “if the United
States doesn’t deal with those kinds of issues in a leadership role,
they’re not going to get dealt with. So I’m very concerned about this
country and this agency.”
-from Democracy Now, Jan. 19, 2006