Word: enviro
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...source review." The current rules stick the older plants with tough emissions guidelines if they modernize, creating a perverse incentive to leave dirty plants unchanged. Bush officials say that the new regulations are only a couple of months away, and they insist that the rules will be considerably more enviro-friendly than activists fear. If the White House doesn't make good on that promise, environmentalists will pounce on the rules the same way they blasted back Bush's attempt to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The fight never ends...
...press releases to business cards - is on fashionably flecked recycled paper. Kelly's own true-believer roots go back to Harvard's Kennedy school for Evironmental and Public Policy - "this is fulfillment for me" - and the company's corporate culture, he reckons, is about half sales and half enviro-evangelist. But Kelly never promised clean energy - just cleaner. And that tends to disappoint the purist...
Bush's program may never be an enviro's dream, but whatever he decides to do to clean the air and fight climate change has a better chance of getting through a Republican Congress than anything Clinton and Gore proposed. Conservationists can find hope in this bit of history: the Clean Air Act was passed and the EPA was created during the Republican reign of Richard Nixon...
...that voters would see them as enemies of progress might keep them from total war. "Whether Republicans cooperated with Al Gore would depend on which Al Gore showed up," says a Republican strategist with close ties to the party leadership. "Would it be the moderate New Democrat or the enviro-liberal? If it's the latter, he'd have real problems. Hell, he'd have real problems no matter what...
Nader and Buchanan - each a throwback to '60s configurations, the one a countercultural enviro-saint and the other an old Nixon gunslinger, the two now, oddly, working the same side of the economic street - would bring authenticity, a depth and passion of thought, to what will otherwise be dimensionless debates, turning, as in the past, upon such fatuities as "I paid for this microphone!" and "Where's the beef...