Schwarzenegger Becomes the GOP's Green Candidate
He's in step with many voters, but not Bush, on environment. He may retrofit his Hummer
By Kenneth R. Weiss and Miguel Bustillo
Times Staff Writers
September 7, 2003
"Arnold Schwarzenegger, long associated with one of the least environmentally friendly cars, is talking about retrofitting his Hummer to run on clean-burning hydrogen. The move is symbolic of a platform intended to appeal to voters in a state that has been at the forefront of environmental protection.
With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (ed. - WTF!?!?), one of the nation's most prominent environmental activists and a cousin of Schwarzenegger's wife, advising him on strategy, the film star is crafting a set of positions at odds with the Bush administration on a broad range of issues, from logging in the Sierra Nevada to controlling greenhouse gases from cars and trucks.
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Peter V. Ueberroth, for example, has distanced himself from a new state law, embraced by Schwarzenegger, that will require cars and trucks to emit less ca4rbon dioxide to combat global warming. Ueberroth argues that the new pollution controls 'would make automobile ownership more expensive.'
Further to the right, Republican state Sen. Tom McClintock ridicules the law that targets global warming. He defends the rights of timber companies to harvest trees as they see fit on their own land and has publicly called for disbanding the California Coastal Commission, which regulates seaside development."
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