White House breaks climate rules

A federal district court judge in Washington, D.C., this week ruled
that the Bush administration violated a 1990 law that requires it to
publish the nation's climate change research agenda as well as periodic
updates on the projected health and economic impacts of global warming.
Judge Saundra Armstrong dismissed the administration's claim that it
had the flexibility to decide when and how to issue the reports, and
set new deadlines of March 1 for the White House to issue the research
plan (already a year late) and May 31 for the impact assessment,
currently overdue by three years. (Center for Biological Diversity)