Environmental advocates have accused the Bush administration of delaying the release of the 149-page report so that it could avoid regulating greenhouse gases. They claimed that the Bush administration has worked to discourage a link between public health and climate change, fearing this would compel the government to regulate greenhouse gases. Telegraph, the report was prepared as part of a response to a 2007 supreme court ruling under the Clean Air Act, which found the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate greenhouse gases unless there was a scientific reason not to. The paper says that the report lays out for the first time the scientific case for the grave risks that warming poses to people, and to the food, energy and water on which society depends. On Friday, the White House dismissed the scientists’ findings, when it said the Clean Air Act was the wrong tool to control global warming pollution and said that a new law, which dealt solely with global warming, was needed. read more

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