Bill Clinton climate change New York Times magazine
nisbetmc | June 2, 2009In a fascinating cover article at the Sunday NY Times magazine, Bill Clinton reflects on health care and climate change as the two major failures of his presidency. Here are the key passages where Clinton describes why he wasn't able to accomplish more on climate change:
On climate change, he argued that he did what he could as president; he pushed for the Kyoto treaty curbing greenhouse gases but never sent it to the Senate because it would not be ratified. "Nobody was really focusing on climate change," he said. "So a lot of times you have to wait for the time to get right."...
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