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Former President Bill Clinton yesterday praised the City of Los Angeles and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for what called the largest effort by a US city to reduce street light pollution by converting to LEDs or other low powered light fixtures.
Starting this July, over the next five years, the city will replace 140,000 of its street lights with LEDs - this alone will reduce carbon emissions by 40,500 tons and save about $10 million.
"If we help you to live green," Clinton said, there could be a time when "every major city could be without a landfill."
"The solution to the climate crisis isn't far off in the future -- it's in the buildings we inhabit, our civic infrastructure and the way we organize our lives,"
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at 18:30 on February 17th, 2009
The question is, and I make this comment as someone who worked in the energy-savings business in the '80s, what did Clinton ever do to promote anything green? Did he raise MPG standards on cars? Did he restore the tax credits that Reagan took away, killing the business off in its infancy?
In 8 whole years, Clinton didn't do anything at all.