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...historical and financial ties to the oil industry, many activists saw grounds for thinking a full break could be avoided. Before the inauguration, soon-to-be Secretary of State Colin Powell had asked Pronk to help push for a delay in the next scheduled high-level meeting on the Kyoto guidelines; Christine Todd Whitman, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, made similar pleas last month at a meeting of G8 environment ministers in Trieste, Italy. The Kyoto guidelines meeting, originally scheduled for Bonn in early June, was postponed to late July to accommodate the new Administration. Now, the Europeans are feeling...
...fact, the Bush Administration still hasn't indicated what -if any -anti-global warming policies it will be pursuing instead of Kyoto. Last week Whitman was sent to Montreal for a meeting of Western Hemisphere environmental ministers with no policy to advocate. The former New Jersey Governor, considered a moderate, called climate change "a credibility issue'' in a March 6 memo to Bush. Now she looks like a wounded dove in an Administration where the hawks appear ascendant. Says Dan Becker of the Sierra Club, a venerable American conservation group: "People are stunned with how quickly the coal...
...Environmentalists aren't expecting any alternative proposals from the Bush Administration to come close to the limits U.S. negotiators accepted at Kyoto: a 7% reduction in U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from 1990 levels. The most concrete administrative initiative under way now is an energy task force headed by Vice President Dick Cheney -another Western Republican. Later this month it is expected to recommend more oil exploration, research into cleaner burning of coal and new construction of nuclear power plants...
...Bush Administration's critics insist that objections to the form of the international agreement are just a smokescreen; the true problem is the content. "The real issue in the end isn't the Kyoto Protocol," says Bill Hare, Climate Policy Director for Greenpeace. "It's the reduction of greenhouse emissions, and that is what the Bush Administration appears allergic...
...will have plenty of company in pushing for the European Union countries to ratify the Kyoto accord in 2002, even if there is no place in it for America, which has 4% of the world's population but generates about 25% of its greenhouse gases. But the E.U.'s own studies have shown that unless European countries start implementing changes themselves, they will miss their own Kyoto target: instead of 8% below 1990 levels, the Union is on course to be 6% above...