politico.com - 1/28/2009
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Former Vice President Al Gore is joining President Obama s push for a $900 billion economic stimulus, heading to Capitol Hill on Wednesday and e-mailing his list of more than 2 million to urge pressure on Congress. The former vice president arrived by Amtrak in the icy, snowy capital to testify ...
breitbart.com - 2/1/2009
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Czech President Vaclav Klaus took aim at climate
change campaigner Al Gore on Saturday in Davos in...
a frontal attack on the science of global warming. "I don't think that there is any global warming," said the 67-year-old liberal, whose country holds ...
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Czech president attacks Al Gore's climate campaign
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 1/28/2009
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Al Gore speaks before a U.N. convention on
climate change last December in Poznan, Poland. WASHINGTON (CNN)...
— Suggesting the planet will soon reach an irreversible "tipping point" of damage to the climate, former Vice President Al Gore plans ...
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Gore to lobby lawmakers on climate change
foxnews.com - 1/28/2009
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WASHINGTON -- Former Vice President Al Gore urged
lawmakers Wednesday not to let the economic crisis get...
in the way of addressing global warming. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Nobel Peace Prize winner said Congress ...
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Gore Calls for 'Decisive Action' to Tackle Global ...
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Gore joins push for Obama's stimulus
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... supporters of the groups Repower America project to let each of your elected representatives know that you want the recovery to be about repowering America. Entrenched interests in Washington will be working hard to weaken the legislation opposing funding for clean energy programs that support things like wind, solar, energy efficiency and a new national electric grid, Gore writes. Today, we can start to get America back on track. Thanks for everything, Al Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18085.html
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... benefit Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Texas. Baratunde Thurston from Jack and Jill Politics made a mini-documentary about the disaster that was the Youth Ball at the Inauguration. A reported 10,000 tickets were sold for a venue that is (generously) estimated to seat half that number, leaving thousands literally out in the cold. The ACLU is testing the Obama admin's promise to release secret Bush memos. Al Gore is on Capital Hill pushing for the Obama stimulus package. Georgia10 discovered this humorous 1981 Bay ...
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swamppolitics.com 1/29/2009 —
by Frank James
Former Vice President Al Gore was on Capitol Hill today delivering more of his inconvenient truths.
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We've had all kinds of fun all year writing about Al Gore's nonexistent drive for the Democratic presidential nomination and his extinct desire to inhabit the White House and hang new chad on the windows.
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blogs.tnr.com 11/9/2008 — In The New York Times today, Al Gore lays out his plan to have the United States get "100 percent of [its] electricity from carbon-free sources within 10 years"—a much more ambitious goal than anyone else has proposed to date. (By ...
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Internet revolution that elected Obama could save Earth: Gore
breitbart.com 11/9/2008 — Former US vice president Al Gore said an Internet revolution carrying Barack Obama to the White House should now focus its power on stopping Earth's climate crisis. The one-time presidential contender turned environmental champion told Web 2.0 Summit ...
Gore, the Grid, and Stimulus
corner.nationalreview.com 1/28/2009 — One of Gore's main points today was to stress that the Congress needs to pass "the entirety" of the Obama borrow-and-spend plan. That's because it includes the funds to build a new grid that a renewable-powered electric system needs. Now, as it ...
Al Gore Joins Kleiner, Becomes Clean Tech Venture Capitalist
earth2tech.com 11/8/2008 — algorenobelprize1.jpg He has the Nobel Peace Prize and an Academy Award for his eco-work, what more could the former Vice President do for green technology? Ah yes, help a Silicon Valley venture firm invest in it. The word is out this morning that Al ...
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First Read 1/28/2009
From NBC's Athena Jones
WASHINGTON -- President Obama took a page from the campaign trail Wednesday when he brought together 13 CEOs to push for the passage of package to help the struggling economy.
The session, though ...
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