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Volunteer attends Richardson & Obama events
-- Steve -- 08/23/2007
One of our great volunteers, Elizabeth Anderson, attended two candidate events recently in which global warming and energy were discussed. Here's her summary of Bill Richardson's appearence in Des Moines last Friday:Dealing with the environment and global warming was one of the five principle pillars of Richardson's foreign policy approach. Richardson said he is for the Koyoto Treaty and supports making some modifications to it to make it tougher. Also, he said he would tackle the serious issue of what to do with China and India and their output of greenhouse gas emissions. Richardson is proposing to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040. He said he has reduced the emissions in his home state of New Mexico.
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The other event that Elizabeth attended was with Barack Obama last Saturday in Waverly. Here's her summary of that event:
Barack Obama visited Waverly Light & Power, which is trying some innovative things with energy generation. Obama talked about achieving energy independence and tackling global climate change. He is also for energy conservation. When asked whether he would support a ban on new coal fired power plants, he was unsure how to answer the question and said he needed more time to study the impact of such a moratorium. It will be interesting to see what he says on this issue in the future.
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