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Judge Orders White House To Produce Global Warming Reports |
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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge in San Francisco has sided with environmentalists who sued the White House and is now ordering the Bush administration to issue two scientific reports on global warming. U.S. District Court Judge Saundra Armstrong ruled that the Bush administration violated the Global Change Research Act of 1990 when it failed to meet deadlines for an updated research plan on global warming's potential impact on the United States. Armstrong set a March 1 deadline for the administration to issue the research plan, which is supposed to guide federal research on climate change. The Bush administration has claimed it has discretion over how and when it produced the reports. The judge on Tuesday rejected that argument. Bush administration officials are reviewing the ruling and had no immediate comment on it.
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