How Green is Your Candidate?

How Green is Your Candidate?

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How do the presidential candidates compare on green issues? The online environmental magazine Grist has created a very useful chart that neatly compares the candidates’ environmental records and rhetoric.

As New Hampshire voters stream into polling places in large numbers today to select candidates in the state’s first-in-the-nation voter guide for insight into how the candidates plans to save the earth may differ.

Grist also teamed up with Outside magazine to interview the presidential contenders about green issues. Read Q&As with all of the Democrats and with the three Republicans (John McCain, Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul) who consented to an interview focusing on their eco-credentials and check out Grist‘s campaign 08 resources.

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