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Clinton gets environmental religion

Looks like Bill Clinton has finally discovered the environment. As quoted in Grist Magazine, he told an audience "'[T]he decisions we make or fail to make in this area may have a bigger impact on America and the world than virtually all the things that were debated' in the recent presidential campaign, Clinton told a crowd of 900 students and business execs gathered at New York University last week at an energy and global-warming conference." What's more, "The event was convened by the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation, an organization established by the former president to help people worldwide deal with the challenges of global interdependence."

Environmental concern wasn't exactly a hallmark of his Presidency, so why the change? "'It basically took him until his second term to get serious about these issues,' a former Clinton staffer told Muckraker. 'I think it was a combination of four years of lunches with Al Gore, who schooled him hard, and pressure from the international community to make some moves on climate change that brought him around.'"

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