The BDN ran an AP story quoting Sen. Snowe: “It is unconscionable to me that this administration continues to turn its back on the Supreme Court ruling, on the U.S. Senate legislation mandating meaningful domestic greenhouse gas reductions and has shown no leadership for sincere and decisive international time tables to move the world off its totally unsustainable appetite for fossil fuels.”

Sen. Snowe has attacked the president over inaction on climate change policy. Of course, she herself refused to submit legislation authorizing the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and the New England Governors/Eastern Canadian Premiers Climate Change Action Plan, preferring to side with Maine Attorney General Rowe’s view that they are not interstate and international agreements requiring congressional consent. Sen. Snowe followed that up by threatening ExxonMobil unless they stopped fighting her policy efforts and shut up.

I’m still waiting for an honest answer on two simple questions: How much global warming will this prevent? And how much will it cost? Not one advocate from the environmental left, from Sen. Snowe to Al Gore, will answer those questions honestly, if at all.

Jon Reisman

Cooper