Obama Win Would Clear Deadlock in Climate Talks, Pachauri Says

Bloomberg.com: Environment

Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- The election of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama would help clear the deadlock in United Nations talks to slow global warming, said Rajendra Pachauri, head of a United Nations panel of climate-change scientists.

``A critical factor in these talks is the position of the U.S.,'' Pachauri, chairman of the UN panel that shared last year's Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, said today in an interview in Berlin. ``If Obama is elected, and this seems more likely, this would create positive momentum'' for the UN talks.
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Obama will tell the Environmental Protection Agency that it may use the 1990 Clean Air Act to set emissions limits on power plants and manufacturers should he win the presidential election, his energy adviser, Jason Grumet, said in an interview. President George W. Bush declined to curb CO2 emissions under the law even after the Supreme Court ruled in 2007 the government may do so.

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