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 Stories About: environmental non-government organizations AND Muckraker AND politics AND Sierra Club
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Spoilent Green Nader's presidential bid is eliciting heated rhetoric from enviros |
Amanda Griscom |
24 Feb 2004 |
Muckraker |
| See Ralph run. Ralph Nader -- that alternately beloved and begrudged gadfly -- buzzed back onto the political scene Sunday with an announcement that he intends to mount yet another presidential campaign. Mainstream environmentalists, among others desperate to oust President Bush, were not amused. Speaking on Meet the Press, Nader sounded a familiar battle cry when he vowed to take ... |
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| Topics: elections, environmental non-government organizations, League of Conservation Voters, Muckraker, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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Yanking His Cheney
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Ben White |
25 Jul 2000 |
Muckraker |
| Environmentalists are wasting no time in aiming their fire at former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, who this morning became George W. Bush's running mate on the GOP presidential ticket. Enviros are criticizing Cheney's voting record in the House -- he got only a 13 percent career approval rating from the League of Conservation Voters -- and knocking his environmental record as current chair and CEO of the Halliburton oil company. Cheney says cheese. ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, environmental non-government organizations, Muckraker, politics, Sierra Club, United States (all these topics) |
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Primary Colors
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Ben White |
09 Mar 2000 |
Muckraker |
| The presidential primary contests came thundering to a halt this week and, on the Republican side, the environment appears to have played a major role in helping George W. Bush beat back John McCain. The height of the GOP battle was marked by bitter acrimony over a television ad paid for by Bush supporters that criticized McCain's environmental record and praised Bush's. First reports of the ad, which ran on the pricey airwaves of New York and Califo ... |
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| Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Muckraker, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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Sprawl Brawl
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Ben White |
28 Apr 1999 |
Muckraker |
| The Sierra Club released poll numbers recently indicating that 47 percent of voters would be more likely to support a presidential candidate prepared to aggressively attack the problem of urban sprawl. Most people associate VP Al Gore with that issue, but Seattle Mayor Paul Schell has his own ideas. Schell jumped on Bill Bradley's presidential bandwagon last week and told this reporter a large part of the reason was the former New Jersey senator and hoop ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, environmental non-government organizations, Muckraker, non-government organizations, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, Seattle, Sierra Club, Texas, United States, Washington (all these topics) |
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