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Cool communities heats up: Clinton plan expands program.


Florida Florida, state, United States
Florida (flôr`ĭdə, flŏr`–), state in the extreme SE United States. A long, low peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean (E) and the Gulf of Mexico (W), Florida is bordered by Georgia and
 and Arizona Arizona (âr'əzō`nə), state in the southwestern United States. It is bordered by Utah (N), New Mexico (E), Mexico (S), and, across the Colorado R., Nevada and California (W).  set the pace as a new Clinton plan puts this urban program on the fast track.

THE CLINTON Administration's "Climate Change Action Plan" calls for an enormous expansion of the Cool Communities program in cities and federal facilities. Under the new plan, AMERICAN FORESTS American Forests is a nonprofit conservation organization that promotes healthy forests and urban tree planting.

The organization was established in 1875 as the American Forestry Association, by physician/horticulturist John Aston Warder and a group of like-minded citizens
 will work with the Department of Energy (DOE) and a host of existing and new partners to expand the program from its current seven demonstration communities to a total of 250 cities and 100 Department of Defense bases over the next 10 years. The Clinton Administration Noun 1. Clinton administration - the executive under President Clinton
executive - persons who administer the law
 proposes to spend $2 million toward this goal in FY 1995 and a total of $12 million through 2000.
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Date:Jan 1, 1994
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