A new, green state? Environmentalists hope power shift means energy reform.

Waste News, November, 2006

Byline: Elizabeth McGowan At least one skeptic issued a smackdown shortly after some environmental leaders began lauding themselves for the thumping voters issued to Republicans on Election Day. Taking such wide-ranging credit for Democrats' ascendance in the House and Senate is comparable to a fourth-string quarterback showing off a Super Bowl ring in a bar, chided Frank Maisano of the high-powered law and lobbying firm Bracewell and Giuliani.

Still, he admitted that environmentalists had done their pre-election homework. Even though exit polls showed the war in Iraq, corruption, gridlock and illegal immigration were foremost in voters' minds, outcomes indicated that green issues definitely nipped at their heels. The latter is a testimonial to...

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