US Environmental Stance Draws Heat

"When you walk around the conference hall here, delegates are saying there are lots of issues on the agenda, but there's only one real problem, and that's the United States," said Bill Hare of Greenpeace International.

a coworker of mine in washington worked on stopping drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge and said that she has started calling the 'climate change' a 'climate disruption'. the climate is always changing, but now that change is happening in a different way (and faster) thanks to human impact.

the US could do so much - they could be a leader in environmental issues.

'could' is the key word there....