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Written by Eddie Konczal   
Friday, 12 October 2007

Former Governor James Florio speaks at first colloquium of Rutgers Initiative on Climate Change, Social Policy, and Politics.

By Ken Branson

Consensus, according to Jim Florio, is the thing to aim for in dealing with climate change, as it is in most public policy questions. And the former governor and senior policy fellow at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy thinks he sees a consensus waiting to be built around the issues of climate change and energy independence.

“We’ve been in a period of marking time. We don’t know what we want, but reassuringly, we do know what we don’t want: We don’t want our environmental laws repealed,” Florio told an audience of faculty and students at Eagleton Institute of  Politics  September 27.

Full Article at:

http://news.rutgers.edu/focus/issue.2007-10-09.6546980252/article.2007-10-09.2834301785 

 

 
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