The Bush administration announced today that it is pulling out of a proposed clean air summit with NASA and environmental groups. The focus of the summit was to be to create a set of air quality standards in the administrations proposed "human settlement" on the Moon, which has been dubbed "The Bubble."

NASA engineers have teamed with various environmental groups to let it be known that they expect clean air to breathe while stationed on the Moon.

"It'll be our scientists and employees in the Bubble and we want to take all the precautions that we can," says NASA chief, Sean O'Keefe. "We believe

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe working on a draft of the clean air agreement. "Dear President Bush, If you would like clean air on the Moon check this box...."

clean air and clean water are necessities for this project and we don't intend to compromise those beliefs."

"We'll be working with NASA to reduce pollutants," Bush told reporters in a press conference. "But I will not accept a plan that will harm the Moon's economy and hurt American workers."

Some in the administration voice the concern that it is too early to be talking about Moon air.

"The President just announced the Moon Bubble, err, Moon settlement last week," says Bush Press Secretary, Scott McClellan. "I'm sure he's wondering why the environmentalists are trying to kill this idea in its infancy. And the fact that NASA is joining them is just a slap in the face to the President. It's going to take a lot to start a democracy on the Moon and the President believes that over-regulation now, in the critical planning stages, might just make this whole thing impossible."

A surprising echo of these sentiments came today from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Although it would seem that NOAA would be interested in how the atmosphere on the Moon is created and maintained, the administration is backing the President in his decision to step away from regulation. Some sources suggest that NOAA's abandonment of NASA on this issue may be related to reports that NOAA is secretly hating NASA right now for its recent successes and the national attention those successes have brought. Officially, NOAA says that it "has its hands full as it is just dealing with science, minus the fiction."

Even more surprising was the suggestion by the EPA that all lunar vehicles inside the oxygen rich Bubble be powered by standard internal combustion engine instead of cleaner battery or solar power. "Let's make this clear," said EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt of his decision to back the President's move, "this is not a Christine Todd Whitman shop anymore."