CBS segment bashes agency for not being more aggressive in policing carbon in the wake of congressional hearing.

Usually the Bush administration is criticized for abuses of executive power. This time the media and Democrats in Congress are after the administration for not using its authority enough.

A report on the March 13 “CBS Evening News” about Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson’s appearance before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming was very critical of the agency for not doing more “on limiting carbon dioxide, the most threatening greenhouse gas.”

This is the committee House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) created to answer a spat with Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) in 2007. As the Associated Press reported then, “Under the agreement, the new committee – to be chaired by Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) – will hold hearings and recommend legislation but will have no authority to approve legislation. It also will expire at the end of this Congress.”