Several developments on the environmental front:



(1) General Motors plans to offer hybrid vehicles in the near future. Here is the best piece of news from the article: "Automakers see hybrids as a means to bridge the gap until hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, which burn no gas and emit no pollutants, are developed."



(2) States sue the EPA over the Bush administration's changes to the Clean Air Act.



(3) Global warming makes the Chicago Tribune cover page. I was most impressed with the following:

"Some say, `Who cares if a flower is blooming earlier or the range is shifting north?'" said biologist Camille Parmesan of the University of Texas at Austin, who co-authored one of the Nature articles. "The idea that everything can shift around the globe [in response] is fine if everything is a wilderness area. The problem is, a lot of the world is a cornfield or urban area like Chicago."



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"We've boxed all these species into these habitats that we thought we could maintain with some mild management and a little bit of restoration," she said, "And boom!--climate change comes along and suddenly the very placement of these will be wrong."

Indeed.

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