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“In the first major speech on environmental policy of the gubernatorial campaign, State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer denounced President George Bush’s ’systematic assault on the environment’ and called for the closing of the Indian Point nuclear power plant. ‘We need to stand up to protect New York against those who would harm its environment,’ Spitzer said in a speech broadcast live on Albany’s WAMC radio yesterday. While he praised the environmental stewardship of Republicans such as former EPA administrator Christie Todd Whitman, Spitzer blasted Bush for what he called a ‘legacy of environmental degradation that will take decades to repair’ and pointed to his own record of legal challenges to those policies. The speech made few detailed policy recommendations but was received warmly by environmental advocates.” (03/30/06)