by Rod D. Martin
October 20, 1997
Bill Clinton returned from South America Sunday with an agenda. Fresh off the signing of a "greenhouse gas" treaty with Argentina and getting ready for a world summit on the issue in Kyoto, the President made clear that he would tolerate no hold-outs: all the world must now board the green bandwagon.
Is this wise? Maybe; maybe not. Scientific theories cover the spectrum, from the belief that man-made CO2 emissions will shortly cook the Earth to the increasingly well supported (though by no means proven) idea that a new ice age is soon to be upon us. The truth is, the scientists just don't know. And this fact raises the question: why is the Environmental Protection Agency so adamant that they do?
The Clinton-era EPA, headed by Carol Browner, is on a crusade, and greenhouse gasses are just a part of it. The agenda includes direct federal authority over all of the more than 2000 watersheds in America (which is to say, nearly the entire country) and an elimin…
