WHITE HOUSE SCRAMBLES TO RESTORE HOUSE CUTS TO CLIMATE PROGRAM

Bush administration officials are scrambling to convince Congress to restore funding for the president's Asia-Pacific Partnership -- a voluntary, technology-based climate change initiative -- after House appropriators zeroed out EPA's and the Energy Department's (DOE) funding for the program. President Bush announced the program last summer, and the administration is for the first time seeking an overall budget of $52 million, including $5 million for EPA, $15 million for DOE, $30 million for the State Department and $2 million for...