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Save the Whales! And the Rest of the Ocean Too, White House Says

Posted on August 25, 2008

As Democrats at the green convention in Denver prepare for four days of speeches and finger foods, and struggle to get their hands on the much-touted but unreliable wooden key cards at local hotels, the White House seems intent to steal some environmental thunder this week.GOP: Green Ocean Party? (AP)First up? Saving the whalesliterally. The White House Council on Environmental Quality cheered new administration rules that will, it says, better protect the critically endangered Northern Atlantic Right Whale, always a flash-point issue with environmentalists. The new rules include a speed limit...

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