Center for Native Ecosystems petitions Bush administration

Yesterday Colorado's Center for Native Ecosystems was one of several environmental groups to demand Bush administration officials take action to address global warming. Read about it at Critterthink.

Meanwhile Wonkette points to The Guardian, which is reporting that the American Enterprise Institute has offered $10,000 to any scientist willing to counter the global warming report I keep blogging about. Coloradolib readers may remember AEI's memorable tagline, "Carbon monoxide. They call it pollution. We call it life."

UPDATE: In other environmental news, Governor Bill Ritter today announced a deal to lower mercury emissions. A press release states:

Jim Martin, executive director of Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, applauded the proposal. "This agreement will lead to earlier mercury emissions reductions than we would have seen from the EPA program..."

The plan calls for new advanced control technologies to be installed in 2012 at two coal-fired power plants in Colorado...

Bill Ritter nominates Jim Martin to Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

A press release states, "Gov.-elect Bill Ritter today nominated Jim Martin, one of Colorado's pre-eminent environmental leaders, to serve as executive director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment."

Martin comes to the Colorado government from Western Resource Advocates.