Fwd: News: Kyoto Oh No

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

from SLATE:
> The [Washington POST] fronts a report carried inside elsewhere that [U.S.]
> EPA  administrator Christine Todd Whitman told reporters yesterday that
> the Kyoto protocol for emission reduction--signed by the U.S. but not
> ratified--is (in the paper's words) "dead as far
> as the administration was concerned." The Post has the extra dimension of
> an "administration source" saying that the White House recently sought
> advice from the State Department about how the U.S. can legally withdraw
> its signature from the agreement. The paper foresees a stunned reaction
> from European Union officials.


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