• EPA Passes on Setting Carbon Limits
• Dark Horizons for National Parks
• Longest Walk Arrives in DC
• One Last Article of Impeachment
• Anti-Government Protests in Peru
• Kenyan Coalition Government in Crisis
• To Be Bomber Reaches Out to Israelis

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EPA Passes on Setting Carbon Limits

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.

Dark Horizons for National Parks

Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency is revising its regulations on air quality near National Parks. Critics say the agency is giving utility companies a pass that will lead to more coal-fired power plants. They charge that the EPA is ignoring the objections of their own scientists – at a time when one in three National Park sites already have air pollution levels that surpass the agency's own health standards. FSRN's Yanmei Xie has the story from Washington.

Longest Walk Arrives in DC

A five month long cross-country trek, known as the Longest Walk 2, ended on the steps of the US Capitol building this afternoon. March participants from all over Indian Country and their allies have used their 8000 mile journey to call attention to environmental degradation and its harmful effects on all living beings. Native American activists are also calling for cultural sovereignty, respect for native rights, and for protection for sacred sites. On the Capital steps, march representatives delivered a document to House Judiciary Chair, Representative John Conyers. The document, titled "Manifesto for Change" consists of testimonies, concerns and priorities outlined by residents of Native communities visited along the march route.

One Last Article of Impeachment

After introducing 35 articles of impeachment last month without success, Representative Dennis Kucinich returned to his impeachment effort with just one article this time: that the president mislead Congress in order to invade Iraq. Now it's up to the House Judiciary Committee to determine if this charge can be brought to a president whose time in office is quickly running out. FSRN's Karen Miller has more.

Anti-Government Protests in Peru

Protests against the economic policy of Peru's President Alan García shook the South American country this week. A regional government building was set on fire, and more than two hundred people were arrested after confronting police officers and blocking roads and highways during a 72-hour general strike that ended last night. Participation was at its peak in southern Peru, the region with the highest poverty rate. Pamela Cueva and Alfredo Cuadros have the story from Lima.

Kenyan Coalition Government in Crisis

Kenya's coalition government is facing its first major crisis since its formation more than three months ago. The crisis stems from allegations that Kenya's finance minister played a role in the controversial sale of the posh Grand Regency Hotel. FSRN's John Bwakali reports from Nairobi.

To Be Bomber Reaches Out to Israelis

Six years ago, Palestinian woman Shifa Al Qudsi planned to strap a suicide bomb under a maternity dress and blow herself up – killing herself and as many Israeli civilians as possible. She was prepared to do this even though she was a single parent to a seven year old daughter. Al Qudsi was caught before she could carry out the bombing and spent six years in an Israeli jail.  She was released earlier this year, and says she's undergone a change of heart.  Where before she wanted to kill Israelis, now she says she wants to reach out to them. Irris Makler went to Tul Karem in the northern West Bank to hear her story.