Nancy Pelosi in The Associated Press

On Energy & Oil: Bush’s energy plan is running out the clock until 2008

But the Democratic-controlled Congress is considering a number of bills that would impose a cap on emissions of carbon dioxide and a carbon trade system. “It appears that the president wants to run out the clock to the end of his term without addressing our energy needs,“ said Nancy Pelosi.

Last month, the Supreme Court declared that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases qualify as air pollutants under the Clean Air Act and thus can be regulated by the EPA. The court also said that the ”laundry list“ of reasons the administration has given for declining to do so are insufficient, ruling that the EPA must regulate carbon dioxide if it finds that it endangers public health.