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Essay: A green Nixon doesn't wash
2013-01-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: Richard Nixon would be 100 years old today, and on the anniversary of his birth, it's tempting to portray the 37th U.S. president as a major environmental advocate. That would be a mistake, for it would let modern-day politics trump an important history lesson. Nixon said and did things about the environment that seem courageous from today's perspective: "Clean air is not free, and neither is clean water," he said in his 1970 State of the Union address. "Through our years of past carelessness...
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