We lost a battle but won a war against the Bush Administration’s refusal to address global warming on Tuesday, August 21, 2007. The battle means little. The war could mean a lot.
As a congressman from Seattle I joined Senator John Kerry and other plaintiffs in supporting a lawsuit to force the Administration to issue the statutorily required national scientific assessment of global warming. Tuesday, Federal District court Judge Sandra Brown Armstrong ordered the Administration to comply with its legal duty to provide the American people a full and fair assessment of the science underpinning this national threat, as the law requires.
