STATING at the annual World Economic Forum, "If America wants the rest of the world to be part of the agenda it has set, it must be part of their agenda, too," British Prime Minister Tony Blair challenged President Bush to show a commitment to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions globally if he wants to stay in Britain's good graces.
Blair has a point.
Here in Pennsylvania, we are the third-largest producer of energy nationwide, and the largest energy exporter in the nation.
The emissions generated from these energy plants is the No. 1 pollutant in the state and have lowered our air quality, contaminated the majority of the water sources in the state and resulted in more than 35,000 environmentally triggered asthma attacks a year.
To address this issue, Gov. Rendell recently signed into law a new clean-energy standard to redirect much of the energy production from these dirty plants to more environmentally sound alternatives. President Bush should follow Pennsylvania's lead.
Jennifer Burdick, Philadelphia
