White House Touts G-8 Meeting As Success For U.S. Climate Change Policy

White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairman James Connaughton is touting the outcome of the recently concluded G-8 summit of industrialized nations as an indication the U.S. has successfully steered the climate change debate past the controversies of the Kyoto treaty and toward global cooperative efforts to encourage clean-energy technologies and sustainable development policies, without mandatory emission controls. At a July 8 press event in Washington, organized by the George Marshall Institute, Connaughton characterized the summit prelude and final results...