What's Missing At The Republican Convention?

None of the speeches at the Republican convention have mentioned the environment. Sunny Lewis analyzes Republican Party platform's stance on environmental issues.

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September 2, 2004, 8:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech


"There's been no mention at the Republican convention of natural resource conservation, or energy, forests, water, oil, oceans, chemical contamination or the environmental causes of disease.None of the speeches made in New York have addressed, or even mentioned, the environment."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Wednesday, September 1, 2004 in AlterNet

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