GOP warming up to 'green' issues: Candidates link environment to security, economy

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While polls in Michigan and nationally show that voters rank the environment far below Iraq, the economy and health care as their top concerns, the Iraq war, sky-high gas prices and devastating weather like Hurricane Katrina and wildfires out West have prompted voters -- and the presidential candidates -- to think of environmental issues more broadly, as an integral part of the GOP standbys of national security and job creation.

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