The Boston Globe: on Environment


Al Gore: Gore proposes $2B to counter suburban sprawl

Al Gore proposed spending $2 billion over ten years to set aside more parkland and combat suburban sprawl. The money would come from a mining industry fee. “All working families deserve easy access to parks and open space, whether they live in the inner city or on the growing edge of suburbia,” he said.
Source: Boston Globe, p. A8, “Political Briefs” Nov 15, 1999

Al Gore: Control clean air in National Parks

Gore will announce [today] a new federal push to bring air quality over national parks -- some of which now choke in summer smog -- back to pristine, pre-industrial levels. States [must] adopt pollution controls that steadily improve air quality in each of the next six decades with a goal to eliminating man-made pollution by 2064. For the first time, the government will force states to assess the sources of park air pollution and require some sources to install more sophisticated control technology.
Source: Boston Globe, Sunday April 25, 1999, p.A27, by H. J. Hebert Apr 25, 1999

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Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-IN)
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Secy.Julian Castro (D-TX)
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Sen.Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
CEO Tom Steyer (D-CA)
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Marianne Williamson (D-CA)
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