United States joins alliance to promote clean cooking in developing countries

Indian men sell dung cakes to villagers in New Dehli that are commonly used as cooking fuel in rural India (in this AP photo). Cookstoves that use dung and other biomass as fuel give off toxic smoke and are believed to contribute to climate change.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Tuesday an impressive collaboration at the Clinton Global Initiative that brings together U.S. agencies and the United Nations Foundation to form the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. The...