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...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 hoodwinked: though the Bush White House will...
...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...
...send a top-level delegation to plead with Bush to reverse his decision. But the President is unlikely to be swayed by Scandinavian invective, or even by Europe's reasoned entreaties to take global warming more seriously, after essentially rejecting the same advice from his environment secretary, Christie Whitman. Bush made clear Thursday that he was willing to work with U.S. allies to address the question of global warming, but would not contemplate any action that would hurt America's economy or restrict its access to energy...
After returning from a meeting with the environmental ministers of the G-8 industrialized nations this month, EPA administrator Christie Whitman wrote a private memo to President Bush informing him that the U.S. has a credibility problem when it comes to climate change. "The World Community," wrote Whitman on March 6, "[is] all convinced of the seriousness of this issues and the need to act now." She "strongly recommended" that Bush "recognize that global warming is a real and serious issues" and said "we need to appear engaged...
...Kyoto Protocol is the only game in town in their eyes," Whitman also wrote the President. "There is a real fear in the international community that if the U.S. is not willing to discuss the issue within the framework of Kyoto the whole thing will fall apart...