EPA's Jackson travels to China

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson is making her first official trip to China next week as the two economic powerhouses remain largely at odds over curbing global emissions of greenhouse gases. 
 
Jackson will be in China from Oct. 9 to Oct. 14, EPA announced Tuesday. While there, she will renew a memorandum of understanding with China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection regarding technology and scientific cooperation that expired last year.
 
Jackson is also attending the opening of a regional air quality meeting in Beijing, visiting the world’s largest electronic waste site and hosting a town hall meeting with university students.
 
Her trip comes as representatives from about 200 countries are meeting in China this week to try to narrow differences on climate change ahead of the next U.N. climate summit in Cancun, Mexico this December. Few are expecting much breakthrough at the talks this week or in Cancun as the U.S. remains largely at odds with developing nations like China and India in mandating reductions in heat-trapping emissions.