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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.