Road warrior: But Warner would rather be seen as green
After winning $29.5 million in federal earmarks in 2005 for a highway intersection, the man who may soon be immortalized in Charlottesville with a road linking downtown to the northern suburbs tried to halt the speeds on American highways, a greening effort that turned out less sustainable than he has been.–editor
The recent greening of Senator John W. Warner was seeded more than a half-century ago in the scenic panhandle of northern Idaho.
The year was 1943, and the restless 16-year-old– temporarily thwarted in his zeal to join the battle against fascism– followed his father's urging to take a summer job out West, fighting fires with the U.S. Forest Service.
"I remember that experience to this day and the magnificent forests we worked in. They were pristine. The streams flowed, and we could drink out of 'em," the now nearly-retired lawmaker said last summer on the eve of a debate over climate security that he hoped would crown his three decades of Senate service.
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