In the afternoon as sympathetic UN delegates, journalists and civil society representatives inside the Bella Center were blocked from leaving the premises to meet with environmental activists outside, large police tanks started moving in on the huge crowd assembled outside.
But Mr. Pleités, the attorney general, suggested new permits would not be issued until investors, environmental groups, outside experts and others came together to write a plan to more closely regulate the industry.
This work has been a core component of American diplomacy for decades as it embodies the kind of world that American's want, and because environmental devastation outside U.S. borders rarely is confined to those boundaries.
And Hartwig himself had been nervous enough to call in an outside environmental scientist.
G.E. hired an outside environmental consulting firm, GreenOrder, to help in measuring performance.
In an open letter, an A.S.R.C. executive named Richard Glenn accused the tribes of working with outside environmental groups "to close the door on the future of our communities".
Business leaders, who have long complained of high taxes and regulatory restrictions, praised the plan when asked about it, but environmental and other outside groups expressed alarm.
