Arguably the two best-known Republican governors, California’s Arnold Schwarzenegger and Connecticut’s Jodi Rell, offer fighting words against the Bush administration’s policies on global warming. In an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, they write
It’s bad enough that the federal government has yet to take the threat of global warming seriously, but it borders on malfeasance for it to block the efforts of states such as California and Connecticut that are trying to protect the public’s health and welfare.