The Mean Green Machine

Meanwhile, Angelides is struggling to recover from a damaging Democratic primary, in which his opponent ran television ads accused him of polluting during his days as a real-estate developer. Angelides fought back with endorsements from major environmental groups and has been furiously touting his own green credentials: a plan to buy up coastal property and investing the state's $270 billion pension plans in renewable-energy and clean technologies. And, in case anyone's counting, he says, the Angelides family owns three hybrids. May the greenest man win.

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