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...Kyoto? CO2 emissions? Slashing environmental regulations? An energy policy based largely on coal, oil and nuclear? For Kelly and Green Mountain, it's all just good publicity: "The whole discussion is really good for our business...
...notion of the sustainable corporation is getting traction in the most unlikely places. Just three years ago, companies like Ford were members of the Global Climate Coalition, a U.S. business lobby that claimed the global-warming threat (and the Kyoto accord) was nonsense. On the heels of BPAmoco, Ford abandoned the coalition in 1999, and so have the likes of General Motors and DaimlerChrysler. Once renowned polluters like chemical giants Dupont and Dow are spending heavily on "green" solutions to business...
America’s interests should guide both the tone and substance of foreign policy. What so irks some foreign states is Bush’s directness in pursuing these interests—a directness that motivated his decisions to withdraw from the flawed Kyoto Protocol and to advocate missile defense...
...President Bush came into office having promised that he would conduct his foreign policy with "humility." Remind the Europeans of that today, and chances are they?ll laugh bitterly. The new administration's stance on everything from missile defense and the Kyoto treaty on climate change to dealing with Iraq, rapprochement with North Korea and the proposed international criminal court of justice suggests that the new president sets little store by the opinions of traditional U.S. allies whenever those may be in conflict with...
...Indeed, President Bush's attitude on questions such as Kyoto and missile defense (despite the current PR campaign on the latter) has been "too bad if you don't like it; that's what we're going to do." And that's left the Europeans smarting at what they perceive as the new administration's arrogance and insensitivity...