During the climate treaty summit in Kyoto in 1997, Greenpeace accused Clinton and Gore of being in bed with Big Oil because of their retreat on greenhouse emissions in deference to oil companies like ARCO, Chevron, and Exxon.

The League of Conservation Voters accorded him a mere 60 percent rating for his tenure in the House, and 73 percent for the Senate. Like his father before him, he was beholden to home-state investment interests associated with construction projects of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and the tobacco industry.

In his home state of Tennessee was the first real test case of the Endangered Species Act (remember the snail darter fish?) Gore voted for the Tellico Dam (on the Little Tennessee River) to be exempted from the Act.

I don't consider anyone who is pro-nuke to be an environmentalist. There is no "compromise" on this issue. Gore backed the Clinch River breeder reactor, and in his time in the US Congress, voted WITH THE NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY on over 55% of his votes.

As vice president, Gore has campaigned for a substantial weakening of the U.S. law prohibiting the sale of tuna caught using fishing methods that incidentally kill dolphins. This was done within the context of international manueverings under the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade).

While the Clinton/Gore Environment Protection Agency (EPA) was busy showing Texas to be leading the nation in reducing Toxic Releases (Toxic Release Inventory, Environmental Protection Agency, 1995-1998), Al Gore continued to allow pollution ridden mining companies to extract zinc from his own property. Gore himself admitted the illegal practices of the companies to which he had leased his land in a 1990 lawsuit (Paragraph 15 of the complaint filed June 25, 1990 in the Chancery Court of Smith County, Tennessee by Albert Gore, Sr., Pauline Gore, Albert Gore, Jr. and Mary Elizabeth Gore, Plaintiffs, vs. Union Zinc, Inc., Defendant.), but continued to allow the mining to occur, even despite citations for four serious violations since December, 1997 by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.

Additionally, In 1996, the mine which operates on Gore's Tennessee property failed two "Chronic Toxicity Evaluations." In 1996, the mine twice failed biomonitoring tests designed to protect water quality in the Caney Fork for fish and wildlife. Mine discharge "failed two acute tests for toxicity to Ceriodaphnia dubia," a species of water flea, according to a mine permit analysis by Tennessee environmental authorities." (Micah Morrison, "Al Gore, Environmentalist and Zinc Miner," The Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2000).

The practical ramifications of these violations is a negative, possibly dangerous effect of the zinc mines on the local water supply, as the portion of the Carney Fork that Gore's land pollutes is classified for the following uses: domestic water supply, industrial water supply, fish and aquatic life, recreation, irrigation, and livestock watering and wildlife." (Savage Zinc, Inc., Elmwood mine, NPDES Permit No. TN0004227, January 7, 1998)

A Green Gore ain't.