Revising his position on global warming, President George W. Bush proposed on Wednesday a new target for stopping the growth of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, according to AP. The president also said electric power plants should put the brakes on greenhouse gas emissions within 15 years. The new White House climate initiative comes as Bush appears, in the view of congressional Democrats and environmentalists, to be increasingly irrelevant in the climate debate both on the domestic and international stage. All three presidential candidates _ Democratic Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain _ favor a more aggressive program on climate change than does Bush, all supporting mandatory limits on greenhouse gases. Bush leaves office Jan. 20.
