US Skips Talks on Clean-Energy Technologies

George Bush's top environmental adviser, James Connaughton, will skip upcoming climate change talks with Tony Blair, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and about 25 chief executive officers (among them, BP, DuPont, Duke Energy Corp, Virgin Group, Edison International, Goldman Sachs, Swiss Re, and Timberland). The meeting, in suburban LA, will address how to work together to accelerate the deployment of clean-energy technologies. Blair continues to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the US on everything, just look at Lebanon, but it's a one-way-street -- the US picks and chooses which British policies it will support.