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Al Gore’s campaign against global warming is shifting into high gear. Reporters and commentators follow his every move and bombard the public with notice of his activities and opinions. But while the mainstream media promote his ideas about the state of planet Earth, they are mostly silent about the dramatic impact his economic proposals would have on America. And journalists routinely ignore evidence that he may personally benefit from his programs. Would the romance fizzle if Gore’s followers realized how much their man stands to gain? Earlier this year Gore experienced a notable public relations debacle. The Tennessee Center for...

<p>A Bay Area clean air program that allows companies to buy and sell the right to pollute has fostered a shift in industrial air pollution to Contra Costa County, a Times investigation has found.</p> <p>While the plan has reduced emissions from refineries, power plants and factories across the Bay Area's nine counties, 87 percent of pollution credits earned as part of the plan have been used in a single county, Contra Costa.</p>