We request that the administration freeze further spending requests to implement international climate change finance programs

No US overseas aid for climate change: Senators

By EPW Blog
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Administration Must Stop Wasting U.S. Taxpayer Dollars on International Climate Change Bailouts http://tinyurl.com/27rbx7t

Link to Inhofe EPW Press Blog http://tinyurl.com/2ef8b7q

Link to Article http://tinyurl.com/22phbvr

WASHINGTON - The United States must freeze climate-change aid payments to developing countries to help them implement a global plan agreed in Denmark’s capital last year, four US lawmakers said Thursday.

Republican Senators John Barrasso, James Inhofe, David Vitter, and George Voinovich told US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Washington cannot to spend the money at a time of swelling deficits and a bloated national debt.

“We remain opposed to the US commitment to full implementation of the Copenhagen Accord, which will transfer billions of US taxpayer dollars to developing nations in the name of climate change,â€