VOL. XLIV

No. 13

26-March-2001

ENVIRONMENT

Bush Backtracks On Pledge To Reduce CO2

Citing an Energy Department study that concluded that restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions would force US energy producers to shift from coal to natural gas as a fuel and thus result in an increase in energy costs, President Bush on 13 March reversed a presidential campaign pledge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and announced that the government would not seek to impose mandatory emission reductions. In a...