Millions of lives were at stake. Hillary Clinton was on board. Money poured in. And yet the big aims behind an effort to tackle the plague of third-world cooking fires has produced only modest gains.
The county and local governments in the Florida Keys have applied for tens of millions of dollars in federal reimbursements for Hurricane Irma recovery costs, but between the state and FEMA, very little money has reached the Keys.
Millions of acres of Arctic Alaska stand open and available for petroleum exploration, but industry's eyes have been focused for 40 years on the wild, wildlife-rich, 1.5 million-acre coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
