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Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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In D.C., green Yale takes national lead

Published Friday, April 4, 2008

In Washington, D.C. yesterday, the esteemed Republican U.S. senator from Idaho, Larry Craig, turned his attention from a Minneapolis bathroom to the Yale classroom.

“[Yale’s] carbon footprint is three times as large as Cal-Berkeley’s,” he told University President Richard Levin, who was visiting the Capitol to testify before the Senate’s environment committee.

Levin confirmed that much — there was no hiding the truth — but also offered a defense: “We’re in a harsher climate,” he began, “and we have …” But a vindictive Craig cut him off. “No excuses!,” he said — and later,...

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