Stealth Kyoto
Environment | A national environmental group is quietly reshaping American policy on climate change-one gulible state at a time
by Mark Bergin
Posted 12/22/07, 12:00 am
President George W. Bush has consistently opposed federal caps on greenhouse-gas emissions, a policy position many environmentalists say contributes to global warming and is an embarrassment to the United States around the world. But Bush is not the country's only politician with executive power. State governors are increasingly taking the matter of climate change into their own hands, many pushing legislation that mirrors the international Kyoto Protocol-the very kind of top-down restrictions Bush rejects.