I just received an e-mail from Environmental Defense, announcing "some exciting and truly historic news on our campaign to stop global warming." According to Environmental Defense:
This morning, ten major U.S. businesses and four national environmental organizations issued a joint report, A Call to Action (pdf file), calling on the federal government to quickly pass strong national legislation to cut global warming pollution.[...]
The companies involved in today's announcement are well-known Fortune 500 corporations: Alcoa, BP America, Caterpillar, Duke Energy, DuPont, Florida Power and Light, General Electric, Lehman Brothers, Pacific Gas & Electric, and PNM Resources.
They have joined Environmental Defense, the World Resources Institute, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, and Natural Resources Defense Council to form an unprecedented alliance - the United States Climate Action Partnership (US-CAP).
That's an amazing coalition, no matter how you look at it. Obviously, corporate America is well ahead of the White House on this, as are states like California and counties like Arlington. As usual, Bush and Cheney are out to lunch on what is arguably the most important issue facing humanity right now. The question is, will President Bush finally wake up and jump on this bandwagon, or will he "stay the course" on a losing strategy - both environmentally and politically? We'll see what he has to say tomorrow...