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By the end of the 20th century the environmental movement and its issues have become a major role in the lives of most US residents. They recycle, join environmental groups, protest, buy eco-friendly products, and include the environment as part of their criteria for voting for candidates. Although the Sierra Club had endorsed Clinton in the 1992 presidential election, the organization, as well as many other environmentalists, had expressed disappointment with his first term. In the year preceding the 1996 election, Clinton returned to the pro-environment policies he stood for earlier in his administration. In August 1996 dangers to Yellowstone National Park were averted when the administration negotiated an agreement with the firm to held gold-mining rights nearby. The Clinton-Gore victory in 1998 promised to keep a pro-environmental president and vice president in office. The most domination international environmental event in 1997 was the Climate-Change Conference held in Kyoto, Japan, in November. Of the many issues to be discussed by the international conference, the cutting of emissions of head-taping greenhouse gases was the most important. The Clinton administration, allied with the Republican-led Senate opposed th
Although the web has become a dominant site for debate, the environmental movement has no lost its propensity to take direct action. As a domestic and global environmental issues and actions were debated, the public responded in the 1998 November elections by approving local and state ballot initiatives that called for spending more than $4 billion on urban parks and setting aside farmland and open spaces. Environmental issues had caught the public's and therefore the politician's attention, but the problems were much easier to agree on than to solutions. By the summer of 199 the destruction of America's wilderness continued at an alarming rate. In June, the wilderness society listed the nation's fifteen most endangered wild lands, blaming over logging, oil and gas development, off-road vehicle use, various forms of noise pollution and other ills for their demise. Across the nation other signs of environmental destruction were alarmingly apparent. In April 1999 the environmental group American Rivers announced that the most endangered river in the US was the Snake River in Washington. By the ate 1990s Americans owned over 200 million motor vehicles, four times that of the 1950s and the mileage of the nation's highways doubled since the late 1970s. Americans love to drive, and most federal highway officials predict that congestion will quadruple in the
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