Word: smog
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When millions across America celebrated the first Earth Day 30 years ago, our focus understandably was our own backyard. Our rivers were catching on fire, and our skylines were disappearing behind a veil of smog. America's remarkable environmental progress in the years since is powerful testament to our national will, our technological prowess and our faith in a better future. Protecting the environment is today a bedrock American value, as important to us as safe neighborhoods and good schools. What's more, three decades of experience have proved the naysayers wrong. Tending to the environment has not weakened...
...Gore needs to say something. The American people have shown a broad bipartisan concern for the environment. Texas Gov. George W. Bush was governor when Dallas won the dubious honor of being named the smog capital of America. Bush may have a worthy response to this accusation, but under our current money-guided politics, we'll never know. Nobody is moving this issue to the front-and-center...