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<h1 style='margin-top:12.0pt'><b><font size=4 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Iceland Leads
Environmental Index as U.S. Falls <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt'><b><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
font-weight:bold'>By <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/elisabeth_rosenthal/index.html?inline=nyt-per"
title="More Articles by Elisabeth Rosenthal">ELISABETH ROSENTHAL</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A
new ranking of the world’s nations by environmental performance puts some
of the globe’s largest economies far down the list, with the United
States sinking to 61st and China to 121st. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In
the previous version of the <a href="http://epi.yale.edu/Home"
title="Interactive Web site for the index">Environmental Performance Index</a>,
compiled every two years by Yale and <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/columbia_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org"
title="More articles about Columbia University.">Columbia University</a>
researchers, the United States ranked 39th, and China 105th. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
top performer this year is <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iceland/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"
title="More news and information about Iceland.">Iceland</a>, which gets
virtually all of its power from renewable sources — hydropower and <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/geothermal_power/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier"
title="Recent and archival news about geothermal power.">geothermal</a> energy.
It was joined in the top tier by a cluster of European countries known for
their green efforts, including Switzerland, Sweden, Norway and Finland. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“Countries
that take seriously the environment as a policy challenge do improve, and those
that don’t deteriorate,” said Daniel C. Esty, director of the Yale
Center for Environmental Law and Policy, who oversees the index project.
“Both the U.S. and China are suffering because they’re industrial
and haven’t been paying much attention to environmental policy.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#0f243e" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#0f243e" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'>Article
continues at: </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/science/earth/27index.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/science/earth/27index.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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