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To: stribe30 who wrote (135026)3/28/2001 9:45:31 AM
From: combjelly  Respond to of 1574856
 
"Why U.S. Environmentalists Pin Hopes on Europe"

I am sorry, this is incredibly amusing. 20 some odd years ago, the environmental movement in the US was undercut because the European countries balked at environmental regulations. The competitive disadvantage of US companies in that sort of regime was used by Reagan and his cronies to weaken US environmental regulations. Now if they had come onboard back then...



To: stribe30 who wrote (135026)3/28/2001 2:27:24 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1574856
 
Why U.S. Environmentalists Pin Hopes on Europe
From Time.com:

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Activists hope President Bush will find European leaders more
persuasive than Christie Whitman on global warming
BY DICK THOMPSON

Monday, Mar. 26, 2001


Scott,

I have to say that I unfairly gave Whitman sh*t knowing full well she has done a good job when she was governor of New Jersey. I did not know and still do not know her stand on environmental issues. However, given her track record, I am not surprised that she is taking the Kyoto Treaty a lot more seriously than her boss.

ted