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...title of America's greenest President: Richard Milhous Nixon. It was the arch-Republican Nixon, after all, who created the Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on Environmental Quality, who signed the landmark Clean Air Act into law. Nixon isn't the only Republican President who can claim a green legacy. Environmentalism as a political force effectively began with President Theodore Roosevelt, a lifelong conservationist and outdoorsman who made Yosemite a national park and created 42 million acres of national forests. And even George H.W. Bush, whose promise to be the "environmental President" was about as reliable as his pledge...
This isn't to suggest that Democrats and Republicans come in roughly equal shades of green. In the White House and in Congress, the Democratic Party has been a better friend to the environment, especially in recent years. But it means that environmentalism hasn't always been and needn't always be an issue that splits political parties - that valuing the Earth and promoting conservation can be themes that unite Americans, not divide them. And that unity will be especially necessary on climate change, a threat that demands such a sweeping response from America that only truly bipartisan action will...
...good news is that after nearly eight years of George W. Bush - who will almost certainly own the worst environmental record of any President - conservatives aren't afraid to be seen as green. There's Senator John McCain, of course, the presumptive Republican candidate for President, who was an early leader on climate change in Congress. (Although his idea of lifting the federal gasoline tax for the summer - which Senator Hillary Clinton also supports - is exactly the sort of energy policy we don't need, a pandering fix that will barely affect gas prices and only encourage Americans to drive...
...minorities and the poor have less access to such drugs than wealthier Americans because local pharmacies don't stock enough pain medications such as oxycodone or morphine. "Those [pharmacies] in white ZIP codes were more than 13 times more likely to have sufficient supplies," says lead researcher Dr. Carmen Green, an anesthesiology professor at the University of Michigan. "I have patients who have to drive 30 miles or more just to get their pain medications...
...over Princeton, who is currently tied with Cornell and Brown at the top of the Ivy League, the Big Green will roll into town with confidence to spare...