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Bush Environmental Foibles Could Have Been Avoided, Senator Counsels.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2001

By Anne E. Kornblut, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 19--WASHINGTON--The month before President Bush reversed his campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska sent the White House a terse warning about several "problems" with the administration's environmental policy.

One problem was Ian Bowles, a Clinton administration official who had stayed to advise the new team about environmental issues, including global warming and carbon dioxide. Hagel mentioned that Bowles once ran for Congress as a Democrat, and was even considering running for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, implying that he was part of a liberal movement leading the Bush White House off course....

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