And Graham angered environmentalists in March when he voted to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. But in Alaska this last week, Graham sounded an alarm on global warming.
He said he will consider voting for legislation that would force industry to cut its emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. “Global climate change is a different issue” than the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, he said. “I’m trying to learn. The more I learn, the bigger believer I become.”
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Posted on 23rd August 2005
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