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Rhode Island Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee has a strong pro-environmental record and, as a moderate, has had major support in his blue home state. But he’s up for re-election and conservative Republicans are spending lots of money to defeat Chafee in

Rhode Island Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee has bucked his own party and President Bush to protect the Clean Air and Endangered Species Acts. So now conservative groups are backing Chafee’s challenger in the Republican primary. Living on Earth’s Washington correspondent Jeff Young reports on whether moderate Republicans like Chafee are becoming rare political animals.