Environment
Clinton will champion environmental progress
As former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, I am alarmed that the Bush administration is in continual denial of the critical environmental issues we face.
We are at a crossroads where for the first time in history our inaction may leave the next generation with irreversible environmental devastation.
What we need is a president who has the experience to deal with these pressing environmental issues efficiently and effectively. That is why I am supporting Hillary Clinton for president.
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Clinton To Probe 9/11 Environmental Impact
Sen. Hillary Clinton and Rep. Jerrold Nadler said in a statement that they will "conduct companion hearings into the failures of the federal government in responding to the environmental crisis that resulted" from the buildings' collapse, which spewed hundreds of tons of potentially toxic dust into the air of lower Manhattan.
Clinton is chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health, while Nadler chairs the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
Call for 'climate summit' as scientists ponder grim report
At a committee hearing Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton said that after years of delay, global warming was "an issue whose time has come."
"If we look at where we are ... we are not making progress. In fact, emissions are still going up," she said.
"I'm hoping that we can get beyond the usual rhetoric and try to find some common ground," said Clinton, who currently leads the field of Democratic contenders for her party's 2008 presidential nomination.
Hil gets key post on environment
Sen. Hillary Clinton has landed a coveted subcommittee chairmanship that hands her a powerful vehicle for addressing post-9/11 environmental issues critics claim the Bush administration has botched.
Yesterday Clinton (D-N.Y.) was named head of the Environment and Public Works Committee's Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health in the new Congress.
"I am looking forward to chairing this subcommittee, which will enable me to focus on improving programs to clean up and redevelop contaminated sites in New York and across the country," she said in a statement. "I also plan to look closely at ways to strengthen laws designed to protect our families from exposure to toxic chemicals, such as lead and mercury."
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