Environmentalists, or at least some of them, have fired a warning shot across the bow of Obama’s mighty ship of state as it sails “to the shores of need, past the reefs of greed,” as Leonard Cohen’s perversion of Wordsworth would have it.

They have expressed extreme unhappiness with the failure of the stimulus package to include many of the 800 items they had hoped to see in it when they sat down in their office to unwrap it.

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