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Carbon 1
Tue Jun 10, 2003
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The word "bipartisan" seems to have been eliminated from the Congressional dictionary,
especially when it comes to the environment. But a new group in New Hampshire is aiming to
cross party lines, and battle atmospheric carbon dioxide. Hi, I'm Bryan Yeaton, and this is
The Weather Notebook's weekly segment on Global Climate Change.
The Carbon Coalition is co-chaired by NH State Representative Ted Leach, a Republican, and Joe
Keefe, former chairman of the state's Democratic Party. The pair hopes to renew the
cooperative efforts of 20 years ago, when the opponent was acid rain. Joe Keefe:
JK: The Clear Skies initiative does not even include Carbon Dioxide as one of the regulated
pollutants. But I think Congressman Gregg has signed on to legislation that would include
Carbon Dioxide; Congressman Bass and Congressman Bradley have a history of supporting this
type of environmental initiatives, and in fact, Congressman Bradley, when he was a NH state
representative, was one of the sponsors of legislation in NH that regulates carbon dioxide
emissions. And I'm hoping, that, as we did on acid rain 20 years ago, we can really play a
leadership role for the entire country, and try to persuade the Bush Administration and
Congress to pass legislation that sets ambitious goals for reducing carbon dioxide
pollution.
US Congressman, Republican Jeb Bradley spoke at the press conference announcing the
coalition, and later told of his role in Washington:
We have a lot of competing priorities right now: security, economic prosperity, drug benefit
under Medicare, and so I think that to some extent environmental issues take a backseat for
some members of Congress because these are other very important issues. So my role will be to
try to create, to highlight the importance of those issues.
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