With gasoline prices spiking, a presidential election looming in the fall, and recent failures at reaching sweeping global agreements on environmental policy, the Obama Administration is heading into this summer’s Rio + 20 Conference on Sustainable Development with modest goals, looking for areas of broad agreement and civic engagement that can be touted as populist environmental progress. “We consider it an aspirational meeting,” a U.S. State Department spokesman told Fox News. “This is a good, positive meeting,” in which “we go forward in as pragmatic a way as possible.”...Nevertheless, the long-term goal of Rio + 20 remains the same: to...
