Staff writer
Trade ... the environment ... simple words that all too often give way to an alphabet soup of memory-defying acronyms that could only have been concocted in a fit of culinary lunacy.
Or by government officials pasting together an international agreement. Now their finished products, which come only after years of bartering, are causing some concern: Trade pacts and environmental initiatives share only one common trait -- mutual exclusivity.
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