Oct 7, 2006

U.S. goes own way on climate policy

** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, OCT. 7-8 ** President Bush looks skyward before his energy speech at the Safe Harbor Hydroelectric Power Plant, May 18, 2001, in Conestoga, Pa. When it comes to global warming, the Bush administration puts its faith in volunteerism and new technologies to scale back America's Everest of heat-trapping gases. But government studies say the results are at best uncertain.  (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)While the rest of the developed world requires — but isn’t always achieving — mandatory cuts in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, the United States is deadlocked in a debate over how to deal with it.  Read full MSNBC here