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Article: Bill Clinton lauds Lake Tahoe restoration efforts
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- August 18, 2007
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. -- Former President Bill Clinton returned
to Lake Tahoe on Friday, 10 years after he launched what became a $1
billion restoration program, and called the alpine lake a focal
point for the world's two biggest environmental challenges: global
warming and resource depletion.
Speaking to a crowd of about 1,000, Clinton exhorted residents to
increase their efforts to protect the lake and said the program is a
model of cooperation among people with divergent interests.
"This is the method America ought to adopt," Clinton said.
The 10th annual Tahoe forum marked an unofficial end to the first
chapter in the massive attempt to reverse environmental degradation
at the lake, ...