President Bush on Tuesday called on the US to set policies that stabilize
greenhouse-gas emissions by 2025. To achieve that objective, the president said,
emissions from the utility industry must peak within the next 10 to 15 years.
During the Rose Garden speech, Mr. Bush also outlined what he perceives as the
right way to craft domestic legislation to deal with global warming, and
suggested ways of designing a unified set of incentives to speed the development
and deployment of climate-friendly technologies. He put special emphasis on
developing a new generation of nuclear reactors and technologies to capture and
sequester carbon dioxide from burning coal.
On Capitol Hill, where Congress is about to debate measures that would be far
tougher than those the president outlined, responses to Bush's speech ranged
from lukewarm to frosty.
"I am glad the president finally wants to engage on the issue of climate ...