NAIROBI, Kenya - Environmentalists complained Friday that negotiators for industrial nations are moving too slowly at a U.N. conference to set controls on global-warming gases after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
A leader of the talks said, however, that slow might be better if eventually the United States signs on to mandatory emissions reductions.
Tuesday's Democratic election victory in the United States heartened those looking for a change in U.S. attitudes.
"The new Congress will challenge the Bush administration's global warming policy on several fronts," an unofficial conference newsletter told the 5,000 participants at the two-week session, which …
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