The company's environmental record has also recently been called into question.

He is a moderate Democrat with a strong environmental record.

Despite my concern about oil companies' bad environmental record in this area, we managed to get along quite well.

"What's happening here," he said, "is you have a President with a good environmental record and some people out there aren't able to accept that."

But you seem to think his environmental record is less than clean.

They say that it will become a bigger issue in the general election campaign, because Bush's environmental record is weak.

We have a very good environmental record, and we're proud of it.

To be sure, many American companies have made sincere efforts in recent months to improve their environmental record.

"I will stack my environmental record against anyone, including him," he said.

Corporations are expected to routinely report on their environmental record.