The Bush Administration plans to postpone action to deal with global warming – despite pressure from the Supreme Court. More than a year ago, the high court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to determine what risks greenhouse gasses pose to human health or to explain its inaction on the matter. The EPA will instead continue to take public comment on the global warming threat, instead of directly addressing the crisis. This increases the likelihood that the EPA will do nothing on the issue before Bush leaves office in January. Lexi Shultz is the Deputy Director of the Union of Concerned Scientists' Climate Program. Shultz says that although Bush pledged to the world to reduce greenhouse emissions at this week's G8 Summit in Japan, he's decided to take no action here in the US.

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