Top Obama environmental official defends record on climate

Speaking on her last day in the job, President Barack Obama's top advisor on environmental policy outlined the US administration's achievements on climate change. While many in the EU hoped for more from Obama, Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House-based Council on Environmental Quality, stressed that US greenhouse gas emissions have decreased since she took up her job in 2009 and that this trend was set to continue. Speaking at the Centre for American Progress, a progressive think tank,…