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Thread #61303 Message #994137
Posted By: Alice
31-Jul-03 - 09:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: Howard Dean's Blog
Subject: RE: BS: Howard Dean's Blog
Dean will be giving an environmental address in San Francisco today. Here is a bit of a quote from two articles today regarding the speech:
The San Francisco Chronicle previews Howard Dean's major environmental address there today. Jane Kay writes:
Howard Dean is calling for an environmental policy that relies more heavily on wind and solar power, cracks down on pollution from older factories and pushes automakers to improve fuel efficiency standards...
"Environmental issues are economic issues," he said in the prepared text. "The right-wing radicals want us to believe that we must choose between having a healthy environment or a healthy economy. I believe that a healthy environment will support a healthy economy."
Ross Sneyd at the AP also offers a preview:
One day after presenting his economic plan in Iowa, the former Vermont governor planned to lay out his 100-year vision for the environment and criticize President Bush's record in a speech Thursday in San Francisco....
In his speech, Dean called for livable communities, something he pushed while Vermont governor. He signed a law that targeted incentives and a variety of grants to developments that were established in the state's downtowns and village centers.
"Doing so will help protect our wild and open spaces and will help reduce energy consumption,'' Dean said.