Ray LaHood actually said...

The answer is definitely yes, we're moving in the right direction.

We strongly urge the EU to cease application of ETS to international aviation in order to help accelerate our efforts to forge a global solu...

We remain strongly opposed, on both legal and policy grounds, to the imposition of ETS on U.S. and other non-EU airlines.

This administration takes a back seat to no one when it comes to environmental issues, emissions issues.