Toward the end of his first 100 days in office, President George W. Bush suspended proposed Clinton administration regulations to clamp down on arsenic in drinking water, arguing that more study was needed. His action drew the ire of Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer. "I sent Arsenic and Old Lace over to the White House with a note that says, 'Don't you know arsenic kills? Watch the movie,'" she tells U.S. News. "I never got an answer." In the end, Bush allowed the Clinton rule to take effect. Democrats notched a win, but arsenic proved to be just the opening salvo in a red-faced battle over all things green.
Climate pressure continues to build over the White House. Last week, the Supreme Court unraveled one of the Bush administration's principal legal arguments for opposing federal action on climate change by ruling that carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases could be regulated under the Clean Air Act. According to the act, the EPA must regulate emissions, in this case those from automobiles, which "may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare." To date, the EPA has denied petitions to consider whether or not greenhouse gases contribute to climate change. In a split 5-to-4 decision, the majority ruled that the Bush administration offered "no reasoned explanation" for its refusal.
The organization Reporters Without Borders is reporting today that three Iraqi journalists have been killed in as many days in Iraq. Two radio reporters were abducted and later killed in separate incidents, and a deputy TV director died when a truck bomb detonated at the offices of the satellite TV station where he worked.
AP - Iran refused to allow the Iraqi prime minister to fly across its airspace as he was traveling to Tokyo, members of the delegation traveling with Nouri al-Maliki told The Associated Press early Sunday.
AP - U.S. warplanes blasted a militia team firing rocket-propelled grenades Saturday, the second day of heavy fighting in a major offensive to drive Shiite Mahdi Army militiamen out of Diwaniyah, a farm-belt city south of Baghdad.
AP - The captain of a cruise ship that sank off an Aegean Sea island, sending more than 1,500 passengers and crew onto rescue boats, was charged Saturday with causing a shipwreck through negligence.
The captain and five officers of a cruise ship that sank off an island in the Aegean Sea were charged Saturday with negligence and violating international maritime rules. Two French passengers are still missing and more charges could come if they are found dead, an official said. Nearly 1,600 people had to be rescued after the ship hit a volcanic reef.
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