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Washington: 'Do As I Say, Not As I Do'

Bush asks others to cut back emissions as US bankrolls high-emission projects

By Sophie Goldstein,  Newser User

Posted Aug 12, 2007 3:37 PM CDT

(Newser) – While Bush asks others to reduce emissions, Washington is promising to pay for a state-of-the-art oil refinery in India that will pump out 9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year. The Los Angeles Times says that this is only some of the smoke covering Washington’s tracks, as it backs energy and oil projects worldwide spewing out the equivalent of 30 million cars' worth of emissions.

A concerned Congress has struck back by passing a climate change plan, at the same time that US cities join in on a Greenpeace suit to stop the bankrolling of projects that flout US environmental law. All well and good, but Washington still says no to mandatory emissions caps and orders edits in official papers, hoping to water down worries about global warming.

The coal-fired Plant Scherer in operation at Juliette, Ga. Tuesday, July 10, 2007. Southern Co. puts more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than any other U.S. utility. Its Plant Scherer near Macon, Ga., has for several years been the nation's single largest source of the greenhouse gas, which most...
The coal-fired Plant Scherer in operation at Juliette, Ga. Tuesday, July 10, 2007. Southern Co. puts more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than any other U.S. utility. Its Plant Scherer near Macon,...   (Associated Press)
Smoke billows from a destroyed oil refinery, 23 March 2007, in...
Smoke billows from a destroyed oil refinery, 23 March 2007, in...   (Getty Images (by Event))
(FILES) This 22 September, 2005 file photo shows an oil refinery...
(FILES) This 22 September, 2005 file photo shows an oil refinery...   (Getty Images (by Event))
The August 13 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, August 6), Global Warming Is A Hoax* examines the history of denial of global warming and how well-funded naysayers who still reject the overwhelming evidence of climate change have obfuscated the science of global warming, misled the public and provided cover...
The August 13 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, August 6), "Global Warming Is A Hoax*" examines the history of denial of global warming and how well-funded naysayers who still reject the overwhelming...   (Associated Press)
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