Christine Todd Whitman, an ASP Board Member and former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President George W. Bush, contributed to a recent op-ed piece in the New York Times that proposed “A Republican Case for Climate Action.”

All authors of the piece served under Republican presidents, and call for substantive actions by the United States to curb climate change both domestically and internationally. They note that there is no longer any scientific debate over the reality of climate change, and that the costs of inaction are enormous. Whitman and other contributors point out, too, that it was their common-sense conservative principles that helped them address major environmental issues like river pollution and acid rain.

In regards to the current climate change plan proposed by the Obama Administration, the contributors to the op-ed piece comment:

Mr. Obama’s plan is just a start. More will be required. But we must continue efforts to reduce the climate-altering pollutants that threaten our planet. The only uncertainty about our warming world is how bad the changes will get, and how soon. What is most clear is that there is no time to waste.

The full op-ed piece can be found here.

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