Gore pushes petition in support of clean energy legislation as Earth Day focus

In Washington, former Vice President Al Gore issued an Earth Day call to support clean energy legislation with a petition drive. The petition can be viewed here, and Gore called for each visitor to his site repoweramerica.com to send the petition form to 10 people. The form can be accessed here . More than 2 million people to date have registered with Repower America.

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