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Bush Boosts Clean Green Platform

Speech light on specifics; critics see end run around UN

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 28, 2007 6:10 PM CDT

(Newser) – President Bush asserted his commitment to fighting global warming today and proposed an "international clean technology fund" that would fund green initiatives in developing countries. But his attempt to address his administration's poor environmental reputation probably changed few minds, the Times reports, because of... Read full story »

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