President Bush Ordered to Release Overdue Global-Warming Plan - Bloomberg

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President Bush Ordered to Release Overdue Global-Warming Plan

By Karen Gullo and Tina Seeley

Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The Bush administration must release
a climate-change research plan and scientific assessment
report that are as much as two years overdue, a federal judge
ruled, rejecting a White House claim that compliance with a
law requiring the studies is discretionary.

U.S. District Judge Saundra Armstrong in Oakland, California,
said yesterday that the administration violated a 1990 U.S.
law requiring the government to produce the research plans
every three years and the assessments every four years. She
ordered a summary of the research plan to be produced by
March and the assessment by May.

The administration “unlawfully withheld action” required under
the Global Change Research Act of 1990, said Armstrong. The
last research plan was in 2003, and the last assessment was
published in 2000. Greenpeace International and two other
environmental groups sued in November seeking a court order
to produce the reports.

“This administration has denied and suppressed the science of
global warming at every turn,” Brendan Cummings, an attorney
arguing the case for the Center for Biological Diversity, said
in a statement. Cummings called the ruling “a stern rebuke of
the administration's head-in-the-sand approach to global
warming.”

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Also: Judge orders White House to produce global warming reports (AP via LBN)

Because if they don't, strongly-worded letters will be forthcoming in a week or two.