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Grewal, who is also vice president of the Harvard Wilderness Alliance, says that environmentalism has been making a concerted effort to expand its support base to include poor urban residents, who may be endangered by toxic sites in their neighborhoods.
Grewal says the formation of the Direct Action subcommittee of EAC and the Harvard Wilderness Alliance last year typify the increased political approach of the environmental movement.
For conservationists, who watch in horror as the global timber machine chews up the world's wilderness, the Tongass had become a test of whether even the richest nation on earth can muster the will to control the forces of deforestation. Logging supporters, and that would include Alaska's Republican...
Henley, a self-proclaimed environmentalist, reminded the audience of the efforts made by Kerry and Clinton to preserve wilderness areas in Utah and Walden, Mass.
That's hardly a ringing endorsement, and as such, it sums up Gephardt's challenge if he has any chance of replacing Gingrich as Speaker: before the nation is willing to oust the Republicans, it will have to decide whether it can trust the Democrats again. So it falls to...