McCain Talks Good Game On Warming, But Lifetime Environmental Voting Record Is 27 Per LCV - B'Berg

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March 21 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain is so passionate about global warming that he talks about it at some campaign events before bringing up Iraq. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee's embrace of the issue obscures what many activists charge is an inconvenient truth: his weak overall environmental record.

``To his credit, McCain has made global warming a priority,'' said Gene Karpinski, president of the Washington- based League of Conservation Voters. Still, ``throughout his time in Congress, McCain's voted pro-environment only one out of four times.''

Karpinski and other environmentalists criticize McCain's positions on renewable energy, livestock-grazing practices, timber sales and funding to conserve public lands, wildlife and oceans.

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McCain gets low ratings from environmental groups, which many Republicans say are biased toward Democrats. This year, the League of Conservation Voters, with input from 18 other environmental-advocacy groups, gave Clinton, 60, a lifetime Senate rating of 87 percent and Obama, 46, an 86 percent rating. McCain got 24 percent. ``People can easily be fooled by the fact that McCain's taken a fairly good position on one aspect of global warming but has actually taken fairly bad positions on many other aspects,'' Pope said.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a_wczlDzkvkA&refer=home

[patrice]

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