Bush resists growing pressure to curb global warming

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — The battle over global warming is heating up, with President George W. Bush refusing to limit greenhouse gas emissions despite growing pressure from the Democrat-led Congress and around the world. White House spokesman Tony Snow earlier this week said Bush's position on greenhouse gases remained unchanged, no matter what was reported by Britain's The Observer weekly.

The publication quoted an unnamed top official with Prime Minister Tony Blair's administration saying that Bush was preparing to announce a major climate policy change in his State of the Union address on January 23. "It's not accurate," Snow said at one of his daily press briefings. "If you are talking about enforceable carbon caps, in terms of industry-wide and nation-wide, we knocked that...