EPA, WHITE HOUSE AGREE ON CLIMATE INDICATORS TO INCLUDE IN AGENCY REPORT

The Bush administration has agreed to include three measures for evaluating the performance of EPA climate change initiatives in the second version of the agency's report on the state of the environment -- a significant departure after EPA did not include any measures in the last version of the report because of agency disagreement with the White House. EPA sources say the draft 2006 version of EPA's Report on the Environment (ROE), which uses scientific indicators to track environmental trends,...