31.   Before departing for Baltimore for an environmental policy announcement earlier Thursday, the president declined to indicate whether he intended to formally invoke the privilege.

32.   Before he left the Senate, Dole tried to block the Clinton budget, environmental policies and programs for education, Gore said.

33.   A favorable result would create a landmark environmental policy to deal with global warming, along with innovative new mechanisms to carry it out.

34.   Abraham, defeated in his bid for reelection to the Senate last year, would have a hand in many environmental policies as energy secretary.

35.   Bush also has been criticized for downgrading the status of a science adviser, as well as for environmental policies that many believe contradict current scientific assumptions.

36.   Bush has offered few details about the environmental policy he would pursue as president.

37.   Bush nonetheless acknowledged the likely role of environmental policy in the campaign at a news conference just days before he announced that he was definitely in the race.

38.   But guarding what is already saved does not constitute a national environmental policy.

39.   But Glenn Spencer, deputy director of environmental policy for Citizens for a Sound Economy, a conservative group that supports the rights of private property owners, disagreed.

40.   But John Shanahan, an environmental policy analyst with the Heritage Foundation, disagreed.