Bush legacy recapped

Bush came into office by making clear his dislike of government-imposed pollution limits to combat climate change, and particularly the emission cuts required under the Kyoto Protocol. And he was determined to overhaul environmental regulations, especially clean air rules, to make them less onerous to business.

Bush stopped in its tracks further consideration of the Kyoto agreement and successfully fought any attempts in Congress to impose mandatory caps on carbon dioxide, the leading pollutant linked to climate change.

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dailygalaxy.com — Last year, a week after the Harvard Crimson published a shocking editorial chiding Nobel Laureate Al Gore, Stanford University held a luncheon entitled "Is Global Warming a Myth?"

How Green Is Your Washington Inauguration Gala? - NYTimes.com

The second gala is being held by the International Conservation Caucus Foundation, comprising the goliaths of international and animal wildlife conservation like the Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Federation.

Their event, at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, is blocks away from the Gore gala and is admittedly more resplendent than reflective. Roses will be flown in from Ecuador. Marinated beef is being flown in from Texas to Virginia, where it will be grilled and then trucked to the auditorium.

The organizers recruited the Boys Choir of Kenya to serenade the guests.
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And, Mr. Barron said, “One tenth of the members of Congress will be having dinner with us.”

Cleaning Up the Sundance Festival’s Act, Fitfully - NYTimes.com

Still, a stroll here this week down Main Street — where a dozen idling trucks were unloading supplies and equipment, while an oversize band bus, with trailer in tow, spewed fumes outside a soon-to-be-busy party site — framed the obvious quandary: how can you cram some 46,000 people, roughly equivalent to a fifth of Hollywood’s total work force, into a pretty little mountain town without contributing mightily to the problems your films hope to solve?
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Los Angeles to Park City is about 692 miles by the old wagon route, though most visitors seem to come by air through Salt Lake City — many by private jet. According to a report last year by Flight Options, a transit firm based in Cleveland, the Sundance festival helped make Salt Lake City the nation’s No. 2 destination for fuel-guzzling private flights, behind West Palm Beach, Fla.
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...Fiji Water was offering its conventional bottles of water at one of the many promotional boutiques on Main.

A new concept car from Honda — a hydrogen-powered vehicle — sat inside the walls of a just-completed plexiglass tent at the corner of Seventh and Main Streets in the heart of downtown Park City, promoting the green pleasures of its energy conservation. Also inside, a young woman was asked how she was able to keep warm in the frigid mountain air.

“We have heaters,” she said. “Big, electric heaters blowing some heat in here.”

Fiji Water: Information from Answers.com

Even Desperate Housewives drink Fiji Water. Sourced and bottled on Viti Levu, the largest of the Republic of Fiji's islands, the water garnered the attention of celebrity chefs and also made its way to the set of NBC's Friends and Just Shoot Me, as well as the movie DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story.