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Gore in the Stocks
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15 Aug 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Gore in the Stocks As President Clinton sang Al Gore's praises yesterday to kick off the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, a few thousand protestors raised their voices outside the convention hall, many of them calling on Gore to divest his family of shares in Occidental Petroleum Corp. Environmental and human rights activists are criticizing L.A.-based Occidental for its plans to drill for oil on rainforest land claimed by the indigenous U'wa Indian tribe i ... |
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A Silent Spring in His Step
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14 Aug 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore A Silent Spring in His Step Al Gore called for a renewed commitment to environmental protection during a Saturday campaign stop at the Pennsylvania birthplace of environmental pioneer Rachel Carson. He spoke of how her groundbreaking book "Silent Spring" influenced his own evolution as an environmentalist, and noted that he has been attacked by polluting special interests for writing "Earth in the Balance," just as Carson was attacked after publishing ... |
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Labor's Love Lost?
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25 Jul 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Labor's Love Lost? Vice President Al Gore made efforts yesterday to unite environmentalists and labor unions, two crucial Democratic constituencies. Speaking in Grand Rapids, Mich., where he accepted the endorsement of the Sierra Club, Gore made a point of assuring union members in the audience that strong environmental protections go hand-in-hand with a good economy. Gore: "We're here today to tell America that as we move toward a cleaner, safer, healthier environm ... |
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Welcome to the Club
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24 Jul 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Welcome to the Club The Sierra Club gave its formal endorsement to Al Gore today, with the group's president, Robert Cox, saying that if Gore were elected, he would be "the most pro-environment president in our history." Gore accepted the endorsement by saying, "It is an honor that I will seek to live up to every day." The Gore campaign is working hard to draw attention to the announcement, which it hopes will help shore up support among enviros consi ... |
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Mall Rats
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17 Jul 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Mall Rats Days after the Clinton-Gore administration gave its endorsement last year to a controversial shopping complex to be built in a sensitive wetlands area in New Jersey, the development company's executives and their relatives donated at least $31,000 to Al Gore's presidential campaign. Enviros have long opposed the mall because it would require filling more than 90 acres of marshland habitat for rare birds and other wildlife. A Gore spokesperson denies any connect ... |
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Al Gore Hiss
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30 Jun 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Al Gore Hiss Al Gore continued laying out his energy and environment plan yesterday, proposing $25 billion in subsidies over 10 years for eco-friendly mass transit. But he affirmed the right of all Americans to drive their cars anywhere they want, anytime they want. "I reject the idea that in order to have a clean environment and reduce our dependence on foreign oil, we all have to put on hair shirts and turn off the air-conditioners and swelter inside and feel good ... |
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Talkin' Bout Power Generation
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28 Jun 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Talkin' Bout Power Generation Vice President Al Gore began unveiling a plan yesterday to spend more than $125 billion over the next decade to put the U.S. on the path to clean energy and reduce its dependence on foreign oil. He proposed tax breaks and other incentives for businesses that clean up their polluting power plants and factories and invest in clean energy. Tomorrow, Gore will propose tax breaks for consumers who buy eco-friendly homes, cars, and appliances, and ... |
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Gimme a (Tax) Break
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26 Jun 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Gimme a (Tax) Break As high gasoline prices continue to rile Americans, Al Gore plans to unveil a multibillion-dollar national energy strategy this week to reduce American dependence on foreign oil and increase energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy. Under the plan, citizens and small businesses would get tax breaks for buying energy-efficient vehicles and appliances, and citizens would also get breaks for converting their homes to alternative heating sources. ... |
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Surplus With a Smile
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14 Jun 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Surplus With a Smile Al Gore pledged yesterday that if he's elected president, he will use some of the federal government's surplus to create a National Energy Security and Environment Trust Fund, which would, among other things, help clean up old, dirty coal-fired power plants. He announced the plan as he kicked off a three-week "progress and prosperity tour," which will include one week devoted to environmental issues. Gore: "Through the power of free ma ... |
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To Summit All Up
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12 Jun 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore To Summit All Up During a campaign swing through Washington state on Friday, Al Gore pledged that he would convene a salmon summit if elected president, bringing together all interested parties to help hammer out a solution to the crisis of declining salmon runs in the Northwest. But even as he tried to play up his green credentials, Gore refused to take a position on a proposal to breach four dams on the lower Snake River in southeastern Washington to help restore salm ... |
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Road, Road, Road Your Vote
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31 May 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Road, Road, Road Your Vote Al Gore promised yesterday that as president he would expand the Clinton administration's national forest roadless initiative to include the massive Tongass National Forest in Alaska, and would ban not just road-building but also logging on 43 million acres of undeveloped national forest land. Gore: "If I am entrusted with the presidency, it will be a national priority to preserve these roadless areas as they are, no ifs, ands, or buts abo ... |
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In Big With the League
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31 May 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore In Big With the League Al Gore picked up the backing of the League of Conservation Voters yesterday, his first endorsement from a national environmental group. LCV President Deb Callahan: "His environmental achievements are the most extensive of any public official in high office." Gore used the occasion to tout his green credentials and proclaim the launch of an "environmental decade." He pledged to crack down on emissions from coal-burning power pla ... |
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Salmon Day, My Prince Will Come
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15 May 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Salmon Day, My Prince Will Come During a campaign swing through Portland, Ore., Vice President Al Gore on Friday said that as president he would use hard science to quickly resolve the controversy over how to restore salmon runs in the Northwest, but he avoided taking a stance on whether four dams on the Snake River in Washington state should be breached to help the salmon. Gore criticized his Republican rival, George W. Bush, for ruling out dam breaching as an option. E ... |
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Set Phaseout on Stunning
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24 Apr 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Set Phaseout on Stunning Vice President Al Gore, speaking at the Earth Day fair in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, unveiled policy initiatives aimed at curbing emissions of greenhouse gases, including proposed tougher requirements for power plant emissions. Gore also reiterated his controversial claim that it is possible and necessary to phase out the internal combustion engine within the next two decades. Gore first made that contention in his book Earth in the Balance, ... |
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Green Giant? Ho, Ho, Ho
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Ben White |
21 Apr 2000 |
Muckraker |
| Green Giant? Ho, Ho, Ho By Ben White 21 Apr 2000 In honor of Earth Day, we take a one-week respite from our dizzying political tour of the United States in order to take a dizzying political tour of Vice President Al Gore. What could be more fun? Perhaps you will require sedation before reading further. Gore-the-environmentalist blasted back on the scene just in time for Earth Day with a few words on cleaner cars and a brand-spanking-new book called Earth in the Balance. Oh, wait. That's an old ... |
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Wheeler Dealer
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21 Apr 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Wheeler Dealer Just in time for Earth Day, Al Gore is trying to burnish his green image. Today he travels to Detroit on behalf of the administration to announce a new deal under which heavy-duty engine and truck companies will produce more fuel-efficient buses, trucks, and 18-wheelers. Monday he announced new proposed drinking water rules. Tomorrow, Gore will address a crowd gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for a big Earth Day fair and rally. And to mar ... |
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Book 'Em
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14 Apr 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Book 'Em Vice President Al Gore, in a new foreword to his 1992 book Earth in the Balance, renews his call to eliminate all internal combustion engines and take dramatic steps to curb global warming. Gore's best-selling book is being reissued next week to mark the 30th anniversary of the first Earth Day, and some Republicans are rejoicing at what they see as another opportunity to paint the vice president as an extremist. Enviros, however, say that the views Gore expresse ... |
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Gore in the Balance
It's time to renew your enviro vows, Al |
Mark Hertsgaard |
30 Mar 2000 |
Main Dish |
| The environment should be a winning electoral issue for Al Gore, so why has he said so little about it -- thus far -- during his run for president? Day after day, the vice president pounds away on his core themes of health care, education, the booming economy, and now, his sinner's conversion to campaign finance reform. Meanwhile, he mentions the environment only sporadically. That's odd coming from the a ... |
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That's Why They Call Him the 'Vice' President
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20 Mar 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore That's Why They Call Him the "Vice" President Vice President Al Gore is coming under increasing scrutiny and criticism from enviros and others because of his cozy ties to Occidental Petroleum. Gore -- who owns as much as $500,000 worth of Occidental stock and has earned about $450,000 since 1974 from a zinc-mining deal that the company helped set up -- last week argued that there is nothing improper about his relationship to the company. Occidental gave $50,0 ... |
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Put Him in the Stocks
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16 Mar 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Put Him in the Stocks Vice President Al Gore said this week that he will not divest himself of stock in Occidental Petroleum, despite the company's controversial plans to drill for oil in the Colombian Amazon on ancestral land of the U'wa indigenous tribe. The U'wa fear the drilling will devastate land that they consider sacred, and last month hundreds of tribe members staged a protest that ended in a skirmish with riot police and left at least one tribe member dead. Env ... |
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Doin' It Dogging Style
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07 Mar 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Doin' It Dogging Style Environmental demonstrators are dogging Al Gore on the campaign trail, demanding that he act on behalf of the U'wa indigenous tribe in Colombia, whose ancestral rainforest lands are threatened by Occidental Petroleum's plans to drill for oil. Protestors say the U'was' rights are being violated, and point to a violent confrontation last month between U'wa villagers and police protecting the interests of Occidental, which led to at least one death. E ... |
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Concession Stand
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17 Feb 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Concession Stand Vice President Al Gore has privately assured organized labor that as president he would seek additional environmental and labor concessions before moving ahead on a trade deal with China, if President Clinton loses his fight this year for a China deal, according to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. Gore campaign spokesperson Chris Lehane affirmed that Gore wants enviro and labor concerns incorporated into trade deals, not just addressed in side agreements. ... |
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Air Bradley Vs. Hot-Air Gore?
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15 Feb 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Air Bradley Vs. Hot-Air Gore? Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Bradley attacked Al Gore yesterday on Gore's signature issue, the environment, accusing him of being all talk and no action. Bradley, speaking in San Francisco, ticked off a list of environmental promises that Gore had made before the 1992 election that the administration had failed to follow through on. He also accused the administration of bending environmental rules to help big campaign contributors. B ... |
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Beware of Oil Slicks on the Road to the Lincoln Bedroom
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26 Jan 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Beware of Oil Slicks on the Road to the Lincoln Bedroom Vice Pres. Al Gore doesn't like to talk up his family's close ties to Occidental Petroleum, a company that has raised the ire of enviros -- most recently by attempting to drill for oil on the ancestral lands of the U'wa Indian tribe in Colombia. Gore inherited more than $500,000 in Occidental stock from his father, who had close ties to the company throughout his own congressional career and got a cushy job in one ... |
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Al Gore Suffers From Weak Spine
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06 Jan 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Al Gore Suffers From Weak Spine Democratic presidential rivals Al Gore and Bill Bradley had a little spat last night over logging in the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire and Maine. Speaking at a New Hampshire debate, Bradley criticized the Clinton administration's plan to limit logging in roadless areas of national forests because it would put some of the White Mountains off-limits to cutting, which Bradley said would pre-empt a more local planning process ... |
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