Kicking and Screaming Our Way to the G-8 Conference
It’s all so embarrassing.
Nation after nation tries to get America to limit its emissions and then we’re caught between 1st and 2nd base in a rundown over the cost to American industry. Top (and usually unnamed) administration officials tell the world that Americans will not support a wiggle or a squiggle in their standard of living in order to guarantee a living with standards.
It’s all so embarrassing.
Nation after nation tries to get America to limit its emissions and then we’re caught between 1st and 2nd base in a rundown over the cost to American industry. Top (and usually unnamed) administration officials tell the world that Americans will not support a wiggle or a squiggle in their standard of living in order to guarantee a living with standards.
Trash-talk from administration policy wonks who wouldn’t know an average American if one ran them down on Pennsylvania Avenue—and it may just come to that.
Kristen Hellmer, spokeswoman for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, s…