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Technology and Voluntary Cutbacks Urged
The Bush administration yesterday laid out a long-term
strategic plan
for using technology to curb the impact of global warming, reiterating its position that basic scientific research and voluntary actions can curb greenhouse gases linked to climate change.
Addressing complaints by environmentalists and some scientists that Bush has not done enough to cut the nation's emissions of such gases, Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman said the 244-page
Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan
promotes initiatives such as sequestering carbon dioxide before it enters the atmosphere and promoting hydrogen-powered cars.
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Energy Department officials described the plan -- which has taken four years to produce -- before the House Science subcommittee on energy yesterday. It immediately came under fire from senior Hill Republicans as well as several outside scientists and policy experts.
It's good as far as it goes, but it needs to go a lot further,
House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood L. Boehlert (R-N.Y.) said in an interview after the hearing. It's good to look ahead, but people expect something immediate, as well as futuristic.
