Word: environmentalist
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...Still, the Bonn agreement has been celebrated as a historic breakthrough both by the governments of Western Europe and environmentalist activist groups such as Greenpeace, which believes even the watered-down Kyoto creates the foundations of a vigorous international system to regulate human behaviors harmful to the planet. And even though the world's largest polluter has stayed out, the treaty's signatories collectively produce more than twice as much greenhouse...
...will a few events in hip waders or standing in front of sequoias help people start seeing the White House view of the president, which is that he is a committed environmentalist? Not likely. We saw how the Bush team could mobilize when they were committed to changing the education system, solving our long-term energy problems or cutting taxes. Environmental issues - even now under heavy damage control - don't get the same kind of full-throttle treatment. At one point when the White House Climate Change Working Group had supposedly already been meeting for weeks, one key administration official...
President Bush swatted away pesky mosquitoes Monday as he spoke to a crowd gathered in the muggy and endangered Florida Everglades. Unfortunately for the businessman recently turned "new environmentalist," his critics won?t be as easy to dismiss...
...environmentalists had a cool response to Bush?s comments. "This is a big photo opportunity. It's designed to make Bush look like an environmentalist, when all he's shown is a propensity to harm America's wetlands," Jonathan Ullman, spokesman for the Sierra Club of South Florida told the Associated Press. And while the Bush White House is not likely to care much about the likes of Ullman, staffers are concerned that months of bad press from environmentalists could scar the President?s image in the public at large...
...power plants in the next 20 years - about one a week is the catchy statistic - but it also envisions 90 percent of those plants will be natural-gas-fired, the cleanest mainstream power source around. Yes, the Administration is more coal-fired-up than even the mildest environmentalist, but the only money the White House wants to actually spend on coal is $2 billion to make it burn cleaner. And yes, Dick Cheney isn't afraid of nukes. But Republican pollsters are telling Bush the public isn't either...