EPA FACES PRESSURE ON CLIMATE INDICATORS IN ENVIRONMENT REPORT

A panel of independent scientists is asking EPA to include new climate change indicators in an upcoming report on the state of the environment, a suggestion that could put the agency in an awkward position with the White House, which reportedly asked that similar indicators be removed from the report earlier this year. EPA will have to reconcile the scientific arguments against the likely wishes of the Bush administration, which has strongly opposed regulating greenhouse gases. EPA's Report on the...