The Bush administration has finally managed to stall any measures to reduce pollution caused by greenhouse gases (which the industry says is not pollution). The White House and its acolytes have denounced recommendations by Environmental Protection Agency experts to take steps for the reduction of greenhouse emissions, especially tailpipe emissions.

Subsequently, the censored 588-page report issued by the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday calls for 120 days of public comment, just enough to pass responsibility to the next president. The actions of the Bush administration are thus effectively disregarding the Supreme Court ruling ordering the EPA last year to devise ways to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act.

White House press secretary Dana Perino alleged, in typical pro-industry propaganda mode, that the earlier draft by EPA experts, which demanded tough pollution standards, was going to cripple the economy without even ensuring that the intended overall emissions reductions occur.

Furthermore, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled, also Friday, that E.P.A. had exceeded its authority when it established the Clean Air Interstate Rule in 2005. Thus, the only real measure taken by the Bush Administration to clean up the air we breathe was effectively nullified. The court said that PA had committed "more than several fatal flaws" in creating the measure, according to the D.C. Circuit's chief judge, David B. Sentelle, and Judges Judith W. Rogers and Janice Rogers Brown.

These developments prove once again that the interests of the Bush administration are quite different from the interests of the American people. It appears that some of the rich of this country feel protected by their tremendous wealth, and do not care of the catastrophic climate change that has already taken effect. In fact, the accumulation of their wealth is usually the precise cause of global warming. Let's hope that the next president will serve more the American people and less the interests of industry groups.

Just a few weeks back, the National Snow and Ice Data Center scientists at the University of Colorado found that the North Pole is rapidly changing from an icy region to a gigantic pool, due to the rapid effects of global warming. The researchers warned that by the end of the year, the region could be free of ice. Last year much of the Arctic Ocean became open water as the water-ice boundary came to just 700 miles away from the North Pole.