One of the major problems is that local officials do not understand it is an urgent and critical task to tackle pollution and save energy.

Never has the Chinese government put the environment issue in such an important position. It is vital to stability and prosperity of our country and people.

Local ownership there was critical, and it was crucial to Carl Lindner. The one overriding goal we had was to have local ownership.

One would think state and local officials would know beforehand who would handle the dead, and where they would be taken. These e-mails suggest otherwise.

We are not seeing a lot of action out of Augusta at all. We do have our local problems, but Augusta is at the root of most of them.

activities that are important, but not urgent.