Bush to Address the Nation on Climate Change this Afternoon. By Dan Eggen, WashPost, April 16, 2008. "President Bush will endorse an 'intermediate goal' today for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but he will not put forward any specific legislation or proposal on how the goal should be met, White House officials said. In an afternoon address in the Rose Garden, Bush will also reiterate his long-standing opposition to mandatory emissions regulations without simultaneous agreements from large developing nations such as India and China, officials said... White House officials declined to release more details yesterday. But Bush's announcement appears unlikely to contain much in the way of new proposals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to environmental advocates and industry representatives... Bush's address will come on the eve of a round of international climate-change negotiations in Paris on Thursday and Friday. Administration officials spent the past week briefing congressional Republicans and industry representatives on their plans, signaling that they feel pressure to take action in light of a year-old Supreme Court decision directing the EPA to determine whether carbon dioxide emissions endanger public health and welfare. In a little-noticed speech in Detroit on Monday, an EPA official indicated that the Bush administration is not likely to regulate carbon dioxide. Margo Oge, who heads the EPA's office of transportation and air quality, told reporters it is 'not realistic' for her agency to decide whether to regulate greenhouse gases by the end of Bush's term."
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