A voice of environmental sanity in the White House?

What Are You Doing Here?
He heads Treasury, not the EPA, but Hank Paulson is investing time in making this White House greener.

Paulson is a rare species inside the Bush administration. Environmentalists see this White House as a bastion of backward thinking; Bush has angered them (and America's allies) by sometimes questioning the science of global warming. Yet Paulson cares deeply about climate change: during his seven-year run as chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, the investment bank issued a policy paper backing the science on warming and promoting investment in alternative energy.

It was Paulson who encouraged the former oil executives in the West Wing to embrace ambitious targets to cut by 20 percent the amount of gas Americans are forecast to consume by 2017 (part of the plan outlined in Bush's State of the Union). Of course, now they just have to tell us HOW to do that!

via MSNBC

The Bush Administration is going down in history as the Worst Environmental President according to the NRDC, Global Warming poster boy (and hopefully Presidential Candidate for 2008) Al Gore and many, many other respected organizations.

If you want to learn more, be sure to check out:
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s wonderful accounting entitled Crimes Against Nature.

Edward Flattau's piercing analysis of the Bush Adminsitration in Peering Through The Bushes.

Bush Greenwatch is a project of Friends of the Earth which provides information on the Bush Administration's assault on our environment and public health.