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The President's
1992
Environment
and
Conservation
Challenge
Awards
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, DC
FALL 1992
The President's Environment and Conservation Challenge Awards are
administered by the Council on Environmental Quality, Executive Office of
the President, Michael R. Deland, Chairman.
STARE OF SENTS THE PRE UNITED THE BNT OF THE
Environment and
Conservation Challenge
Award Partners
The National Geographic Society
Gilbert M. Grosvenor
President and Chairman of the Board
The Hearst Corporation
Frank A. Bennack, Jr.
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Business Roundtable
John D. Ong
Chairman
The World Wildlife Fund
Russell E. Train
Chairman of the Board
SUPPORTING PARTNER
Take Pride in America Campaign
U.S. Department of the Interior
WITH SPECIAL APPRECIATION TO
Environment and Natural
Resources Division
U.S. Department of Justice
FORWARD
ACROSS THE UNITED STATES,
citizens continue to accept the
challenge to develop initiatives
that work to preserve and improve
our environment. Individually and
collectively, these programs are
helping to establish a conservation
ethic across the country.
In recognition of these efforts,
President Bush is bestowing Presi-
dential Medals for environmental
excellence to nine deserving recip-
ients. In addition, 13 organizations
will receive Presidential Citations
in recognition of their environmen-
tal achievements. Their work
ranges across the environmental
spectrum: from agriculture to
manufacturing to small business;
from the classroom to the great
outdoors, and back to the inner city.
Their good deeds have improved
our Nation's air, water and lands.
Allof the Award recipients are
achievers. These individuals and
organizations have demonstrated
their commitment to improving
the quality of life in America by
tackling environmental problems
and developing solutions that are
innovative and economically sound.
The President established the
Environment and Conservation
Challenge Awards in 1991 to be con-
ferred annually to individuals and
organizations whose efforts epito-
mize the ideals of Partnership,
Environmental Quality Manage-
ment, Innovation, and Education
and Communications.
RECIPIENTS OF 1992
PRESIDENTIAL
PARTNERSHIP
Awarded for fostering cooperative approaches to environmental
needs at the local, regional, or national level.
Florida Save Our Everglades Program
State of Florida and partners, Tallahassee, FL
Think Earth Environmental
Education Program
Southern California "Think Earth" Environmental
Education Consortium, Lakewood, CA
Energy Conservation
Collaborative Effort
New England Electric System, Westboro, MA, and the
Conservation Law Foundation of New England, Boston, MA
MEDALS
Medals are presented to individuals
and organizations whose efforts epitomize the
ideals of the Challenge Awards.
T
he Save Our Everglades program was created to preserve
and restore Florida's unique wetlands ecosystem.
Objectives included the restoration of the Kissimmee
River and protection of Lake Okeechobee, Water Conservation
Areas, Big Cypress Swamp, the Florida panther and other
endangered wildlife. Since its initiation, 290,000 acres of land
have been acquired; landmark federal and state legislation has
been passed; and 36 wildlife highway crossings and bridges have
been constructed to protect endangered species and improve
hydrology. Partners include the State of Florida, 22 conserva-
tion groups forming the Everglades Coalition, the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, the National Park Service, and the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service.
A
consortium of 13 California organizations developed
and distributed "Think Earth," an elementary school
environmental education curriculum. The curriculum
teaches children to conserve natural resources, reduce waste,
and minimize pollution. "Think Earth" has reached approxi-
mately one million students nationwide. Partners include the
Atlantic Richfield Company, City of Los Angeles, Education
Development Specialists, GTE California, Los Angeles
Department of Water and Power, Metropolitan Water District
of Southern California, Orange and Los Angeles Counties'
Sanitation Districts, South Coast Air Quality Management
District, Southern California Edison, The Gas Company,
Ventura County Air Pollution Control District, and the Ventura
Regional Sanitation District.
T
he unlikely union of an electric utility and an environ-
mental group has resulted in two major achievements:
the development of one of the nation's most successful
energy conservation programs and regulatory approval for a
utility earnings incentive. The "power plant that conservation
built" significantly reduced the utility's air pollutants and the
need for new capacity, while saving consumers and stockhold-
ers money.
ENVIRONMENTAL
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Awarded for demonstrating that environmental values can
be integrated into sound management decisions and practices.
Environmental Management and
Conservation Programs
IBM Corporation, Stamford, CT
Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers
Environmental Action Program
Saunders Hotels Company, Inc., Boston, MA
INNOVATION
Awarded for developing creative technologies, programs, or services
that are environmentally sound and economically sensible.
CFC Solvent Phase Out
Northern Telecom, Inc., Nashville, TN
South Coast Recycled Auto Project
(SCRAP)
Unocal Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
1992 PRESIDENTIAL MEDALS
I
BM demonstrated that a large company can institutionalize and
practice environmental protection and conservation through
sound policy practices, executive leadership, and employee
commitment. IBM's record of accomplishments results from meet-
ing or exceeding government regulations and, where none exist,
from setting and adhering to its own stringent standards.
oston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers has created an envi-
B
ronmental campaign which encompasses more than 85
initiatives throughout all departments of the hotel. This
program has shown clearly that the competitive hospitality ser-
vice industry can make dramatic changes and maintain a high
quality of service and standards. This family-owned and -oper-
ated landmark property has successfully aligned business with
environmental action.
I
n 1988, Northern Telecom, Inc., pledged the complete phase
out of CFC-113 solvents from all of its 42 manufacturing and
research operations worldwide within three years. Northern
Telecom was the first global telecommunications company to
make such a pledge. At the end of 1991, all 42 Northern Telecom
operations had totally eliminated these solvents from their opera-
tions. CFC solvent emissions to the atmosphere were reduced
from greater than 1,000 tons per year to zero in three years.
U
nocal's SCRAP Project was an unprecedented effort to
improve air quality in the Los Angeles Basin by scrap-
ping heavily polluting, pre-1971 cars. In four months,
8,376 old cars were purchased and crushed for recycling. The
SCRAP project reduced air pollutants by nearly 13 million
pounds per year for a cost of approximately 50 cents per pound.
EDUCATION
AND COMMUNICATIONS
Awarded for developing informational programs that inspire respect
for the environment and raise the public's environmental awareness.
People for Community Recovery
People for Community Recovery, Inc., Chicago, IL
Environmental Education Program
Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Annapolis, MD
1992 PRESIDENTIAL MEDALS
P
eople for Community Recovery (PCR) is a grassroots
environmental education and advocacy organization
serving a predominantly low-income, African-
American community. PCR assesses the level of environmental
hazards in the community and mobilizes its constituents to alle-
viate these hazards. Hazel Johnson, the group's executive direc-
tor and founder, is recognized as a national leader in the grass-
roots environmental movement.
T
he Chesapeake Bay Foundation's (CBF) Outdoor
Environmental Education Program provides over
35,000 student-days per year of field instruction in
estuarine issues to students, teachers, and adults throughout the
Bay watershed. The goal is to create a constituency that not only
values and understands the Bay, but also works actively to
restore it. Individuals and groups participate in hands-on water
activities through the use of canoes, rowboats, skipjacks, power-
boats, and even work on a model low-input farm operated by
CBF.
RECIPIENTS OF 1992
PRESIDENTIAL
PARTNERSHIP
Awarded for fostering cooperative approaches to environmental
needs at the local, regional, or national level.
Compressed Natural Gas Vehicle
Conversion Projects
New Mexico Department of Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources, Santa
Fe, NM, and the Gas Company of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
T
he New Mexico Department of Energy, Minerals and Natural
Resources and the Gas Company of New Mexico joined forces to
introduce compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles to the area's diverse
transportation sectors. The objective was to increase public accep-
tance of energy-saving, cost effective, and environmentally compati-
ble alternatives to petroleum fuels. The program introduced CNG
technology to school districts, government agencies, municipalities,
and nonprofit groups.
Keep Texas Beautiful
Keep Texas Beautiful, Inc., Austin, TX
K
eep Texas Beautiful's mission is to preserve the natural beauty
and environment of the Lone Star State. The group forges part-
nerships between grassroots volunteer organizations and the public
and private sectors to improve the quality of life, enhance economic
development and tourism, and conserve public and natural
resources. The partnership reaches its goals through education and
public awareness activities which emphasize proper solid waste man-
agement and responsible behavior by all Texans and visitors to Texas.
ENVIRONMENTAL
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Awarded for demonstrating that environmental values can
be integrated into sound management decisions and practices.
Corporate Environmental Policies
3COM Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
3
COM, a leading supplier of data networking products, believes that
pollution prevention and conservation practices ensure its success.
3COM was a pioneer in CFC replacement and the use of organic packag-
ing. Conservation efforts include recycling 89% of all office paper, 98% of
toner cartridges, and four tons of cardboard annually. Employees volun-
tarily recycle, rideshare, and work in a smokefree environment.
CITATIONS
Citations are presented to finalists whose
efforts demonstrate noteworthy achievements
in the four award categories.
Santa Rosa Plateau Agreement
Metropolitan Water District of Southern
California and partners, Los Angeles, CA
T
he Santa Rosa Plateau Management Committee saved the
unique resources of this natural grasslands ecosystem. By creat-
ing a model for cooperation in regional environmental planning, the
partnership brought regulatory agencies and responsible developers
together in a program which simultaneously benefited wildlife and
people. Partners include: the Metropolitan Water District of
Southern California, The Nature Conservancy, Riverside County,
California Department of Fish and Game, and the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service.
Partnership for Wetlands Conservation
Dow Chemical Company and partners, Midland, MI
P
artnership for Wetlands Conservation is a public/private part-
nership supporting the goals of the North American Wetlands
Conservation Act of 1990. Partners include the National Fish and
Wildlife Foundation, Ducks Unlimited, The Nature Conservancy,
and the Dow Chemical Company. The partnership commits conser-
vation expertise and $6 million to preserve endangered wetlands
acres. Dow employees also volunteer to coordinate habitat projects
on and near Dow properties.
INNOVATION
Awarded for developing creative technologies, programs, or services
that are environmentally sound and economically sensible.
Georgia No-Tillage Assistance Program
Georgia Office of Energy Resources, Atlanta, GA
The No-Thesou Resources and administered by the Georgia Soil & Water
Assistance Program, funded by the state Office of
Conservation Commission, provides small farmers access to costly
conservation tillage equipment at a minimal per acre fee. No-Tillage
methods prevent water pollution, soil erosion, and save non-renewable
fossil fuels. To date, more than 6,000 acres on 2,200 farms have been
converted to no-till systems, saving more than 200,000 tons of soil and
over 225,000 gallons of fuel over conventional tilling methods.
Jefferson North Project
Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, MI
C
hrysler's objective was to build an environmentally-sound,
world-class manufacturing facility to produce an automobile
production line. The company reclaimed an urban site to construct
the Jefferson North Assembly Plant. Pollution prevention was fac-
tored into decisions about plant design, raw materials, manufacturing
processes, and the vehicle built at the new facility.
EDUCATION
AND COMMUNICATIONS
Awarded for developing informational programs that inspire respect
for the environment and raise the public's environmental awareness.
Save Our Streams
Save Our Streams, Glen Burnie, MD
S
ave Our Streams is a volunteer advocacy group that identifies
and corrects problems on Maryland's waterways through hands-
on water quality testing and local activism. Save Our Stream's 7,000
volunteers strive to educate and build partnerships between citizens,
businesses, industries, and government agencies. The group provides
a range of educational materials, tools and techniques for stream
monitoring, and organizes communities to develop and strengthen
leadership focused on a common conservation goal.
Chesapeake Bay License Plate Program
State of Maryland, Annapolis, MD
T
he State of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay commemorative license
plate program has raised more than $3.5 million for Bay educa-
tion and restoration projects while increasing public awareness of the
Bay among the 4.5 million citizens of Maryland and throughout the
Bay region.
1992 PRESIDENTIAL CITATIONS
"Great Lakes Recycle" Program
Council of Great Lakes Governors, Chicago, IL
G
reat Lakes Recycle stimulates market development for recycled
products through a joint purchase approach which is unprece-
dented in size. The program contributes to the emergence of an ecolog-
ically sound economy in the region by creating common specifications
and stimulating investment in environmentally sound technologies.
States involved include Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio,
New York, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Innovative Source Reduction
Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, oH
I
nnovation in reducing the volume of material going to solid waste
is a hallmark of Procter & Gamble's environmental programs.
Through the largest source reduction program ever, the company has
eliminated .5% of the volume of the total U.S. waste stream. In part-
nership with retailers and consumers, P&G has applied this innova-
tion and high technology to use less material in its products and
packages while at the same time delivering quality products.
Earth Mattersᵀ
Hannaford Brothers Co., Scarborough, ME
T
he "Earth Matters" program works in partnership with cus-
tomers, associates, and suppliers. Through this program, the
Hannaford Brothers supermarket chain raises awareness of environ-
mental issues, increases community involvement in conservation
programs, and encourages others to reduce, reuse, and recycle
resources. Local communities recognize and value the company's
high recycling rates and its effective programs.
Project CENTS
Tennessee Conservation League, Nashville, TN
P
roject CENTS is an interdisciplinary program for students in
grades K-12, using basic skills in reading and math to teach nat-
ural resource concepts. The program provides students with the
knowledge to understand and evaluate their actions in relation to the
environment. Since 1983, more than 19,000 teachers and 300,000
Tennessee students have benefited from this program.
AWARDS SELECTION
COMMITTEE
Frank A. Bennack, Jr. The Hearst Corporation
Dr. Cheryl Charles
Project WILD
Dr. Anthony D. Cortese
Tufts University
Michael R. Deland
Council on Environmental
Quality
Gilbert M. Grosvenor
National Geographic Society
Dr. Bernadine Healy
National Institutes of Health,
U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services
Dr. Joseph T. Ling
American Institute of Pollution
Prevention & 3M (retired)
Jack Lorenz
Izaak Walton League of America
Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy The Smithsonian Institution
Samuel L. Maury
The Business Roundtable
J. Michael McCloskey
The Sierra Club
Sen. Gaylord Nelson
Wilderness Society
David Packard
Hewlett Packard Company
Sumner Pingree
Global Environment Fund
David Rockefeller, Jr.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Sen. Robert T. Stafford
former U.S. Senator from
Vermont
Franklin A. Thomas
The Ford Foundation
Dr. Keith Thomson
Academy of Natural Sciences
Russell E. Train
World Wildlife Fund
TECHNICAL
EVALUATORS
Dr. Betsy Ancker-Johnson
World Environment Center
Dr. Leonard Baker
Union Carbide Corporation
Amy Barr
Good Housekeeping Institute
Rich Block
World Wildlife Fund
Richard Conway
Union Carbide Corporation
Katherine Cudlipp
Environmental Consultant
Dr. Brenda Davis
Princeton University
John Dernback
Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Resources
Dr. Farouk El-Baz
Boston University
Dr. Gary Glass
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency
Francis Grant-Suttie
World Wildlife Fund
Adam Kolton
Sierra Club
Janet Maughan
The Ford Foundation
Barbara Moffet
National Geographic Society
Curtis Moore
Writer and Analyst
Katy Moran
The Smithsonian Institution
Dr. Warren Muir
Hampshire Research Associates
Dr. Kenneth Olden
National Institute of
Environmental Health
Sciences, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services
Dr. Roy W. Overton II
Mercy West Medical Clinic
Samuel Pitts
Westinghouse Electric
Corporation
Stacy Ritter
Sierra Club
Samuel Schulhof
General Electric Company
Dr. Thomas Shen
New York Department of
Environmental
Conservation (ret.)
Col. Francis Skidmore
Louis Berger & Associates
Dr. Martyn Smith
University of California,
Berkeley
Dr. David Stephen
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency
Dr. Paul Toren
Izaak Walton League of America
Dr. Bruce White
White & White Consultants
Martin Wolf
Good Housekeeping Institute
Dr. Bailus Walker
University of Oklahoma
Dr. George Wham
Good Housekeeping Institute
Dr. Roger Wood
The Wetlands Institute
1991
MEDALS
American Farmland Trust
Washington, DC
Environmental Defense Fund
New York, NY
Environmental Media Association
Culver City, CA
The Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, CA
Marine Resources Council
of East Florida
Melbourne, FL
McDonald's Corporation
Oak Brook, IL
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
San Francisco, CA
Project WILD
Boulder, CO
Tufts Environmental
Literacy Institute
Medford, MA
Virginia Coast Reserve
Nassawadox, VA
AWARD RECIPIENTS
CITATIONS
3M
St. Paul, MN
American Forestry Association
Washington, DC
AT&T
New York, NY
BankAmerica Corporation
San Francisco, CA
Center for Marine Conservation
Washington, DC
Eaton Corporation
Cleveland, OH
Global Rivers Environmental
Education Network
Ann Arbor, MI
Green Bay Packaging, Inc.
Green Bay, WI
Herman Miller, Inc.
Zeeland, MI
Household Hazardous Waste Project
Springfield, MO
Island Press
Washington, DC
Kroger Company
Louisville, KY
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
N-Viro Energy Systems
Toledo, OH
Playa Lakes Joint Venture
Bartlesville, OK
Procter & Gamble Company
Cincinnati, OH
Reynolds Metal Company
Richmond, VA
Sacramento River Project
San Francisco, CA
SC Johnson Wax
Racine, WI
Southern California Edison
Irwindale, CA
Times Mirror Magazines
Conservation Council
Washington, DC
Wildlife Habitat
Enhancement Council
Silver Spring, MD
Wildwood Girl Scouts
Portland, OR
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THE RESIDENT HAS JEEN
THE WHITE HOUSE
12-1-92
WASHINGTON
P3 : 47
November 30, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
DAN McGROARTY
add kuds Milu o Deland to the to
FROM:
JENNIFER GROSSMAN
SUBJECT:
ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION CHALLENGE AWARDS
On Wednesday, December 2 at 2:30 p.m. in the East Room, you
will deliver remarks (8 mins./cards) upon presenting the
Presidential Medals for Environmental Excellence. Nine
Bill Reilly and
recipients will be receiving the medal -- the nation's highest
environmental honor.
Your remarks highlight the environmental accomplishments of
your administration, while commending the medal recipients for
their outstanding achievements.
(Grossman)
November 23, 1992
Draft Two
ENVIRO
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS
THE EAST ROOM
DECEMBER 2, 1992
Welcome everyone to the White House. [Acknowledgments]. And
a special welcome to the nine medal and thirteen citation
recipients. Congratulations.
I'm not going to make a long-winded speech today. \ I take
the Clean Air Act very seriously. 11 But I've done a lot of
thinking over the past two weeks, and I'd like to share some of
my reflections.
Over the next few years I reckon I'll be spending a lot of
time in what Teddy Roosevelt called "the great cathedral of the
outdoors;" and I'll remember what we've done to conserve it, and
preserve it
and I'll be proud of am team's efforts
my environmental policy
The environmental presidency was born out of the concerns of
a President, an outdoorsman, and a grandfather. Our approach
signalled a step forward: Away from the old, outdated ideas of
"command and control" conservation -- to a more market-oriented,
decentralized philosophy of environmental action. Those who
forced a false choice between a strong economy and a safer
environment just plain missed the point: we sought to achieve
both -- while sacrificing neither.
We combined a pragmatism about human nature with an idealism
about Mother Nature: an ambitious agenda that sought to harness
the energy of capitalism in the service of the environment.
2
Here are the accomplishments proud pass on to a new
generation: The Clean Air Act -- we broke ten years of
congressional gridlock by pushing through the world's most
protective and cost-effective clean air legislation. \ We won
major funding shifts to environmental programs -- increasing the
EPA's budget by almost 50 percent, and increasing funding for
clean energy research and development by 66 percent.
On the law enforcement front we broke new ground and old
records: filing more cases, collecting more penalties, and
putting more polluters behind bars than every previous
administration in history combined.
We helped make America's Great Outdoors even greater:
securing over a billion dollars to expand parks, wetlands,
wildlife refuges, campgrounds, and scenic rivers. \ We decided
to end clear-cutting as a standard practice on federal land. And
our America the Beautiful initiative has planted more than two
million new trees all across this great land. \
We ensured that America's seas would still be "shining":
ending ocean dumping of sewage sludge \ proposing and signing a
tough oil pollution bill \ and imposing a 10-year moratorium on
oil and gas leasing over vast areas of our ecologically-sensitive
coasts. 11
We've launched a new generation of clean energy
technologies, not only by increasing funding for research and
development, but also by creating incentives for their use. And
3
we pushed through comprehensive national energy legislation that
will guide our country into the next century.
In terms of federal leadership, we've tripled funding for
federal facility cleanups \ secured over a hundred enforceable
cleanup agreements for federal facilities \ and signed executive
orders spurring the federal government to take the lead in
increasing energy efficiency, recycling, and waste reduction.
\
And finally, we've insisted that a new world order include a
cleaner world environment. We reached over twenty new
international environmental agreements. \ For example, we
reduced Poland's debt in order to help them fund a new
environmental foundation. We also launched the Environmental
Center in Budapest -- to help countries in central and eastern
Europe.
We made America the world leader in the phaseout of CFCs.
We led the way to global bans on driftnet fishing. We built
environmental cooperation into trade negotiations with Mexico;
expanded debt-for-nature swaps with Latin America; created
networks for cooperation with Asia; and our comprehensive,
action-oriented approach to global climate change was ratified by
the Senate and adopted by the world community.
At the same time that we renewed our national commitment to
the environment, we redoubled our efforts to support and
encourage people like you. Everyone in this room today has
demonstrated the principles of a new environmentalism.
4
was
establishi
Ivestabliched this national environmental awards program to
A
honor those who've honored the environment. Some here have
forged innovative partnerships -- environmental alliances that
are protecting our wetlands, preserving our resources, and
preparing a new generation of environmental leadership. 11
Others here have taken the lead in combining sound business
with a safer environment -- a smart, new merger between
profitability and preservation.
Still others are pioneers on the frontier of environmental
technology: finding ways to remove CFC production from
manufacturing; or reduce pollution while recycling metal scrap.
Finally we've got recipients here who are cultivating our
human resources to conserve our natural ones. Leaders, like
Hazel Johnson, who realize that the greening of America is a
truly a grassroots operation. Or the Environmental Education
Program, teaching our children how to care for the great land
they will inherit. 11
I remember back in July I was out west visiting Sequoia
National Park. There was a camp there for inner-city youngsters,
Pyles Boys Camp I think it was called. I remember quoting Teddy
Roosevelt talking about the "beautiful gifts" we receive from
nature -- gifts we "ought to hand on as a precious heritage to
[our] children and [our] children's children."
That heritage is the family legacy that all Americans share,
and share responsibility for. Each of you understands President
Roosevelt's challenge. Each of you has acted on it. For that
5
you have my admiration, my respect, and my gratitude. Now, Mike,
if you'd hand out the medals.
#
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RESIDENT
THE WHITE HOUSE
12-1-92
WASHINGTON
P3:
D-
47
November 30, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
DAN McGROARTY
add Ruds Milu o Beland the and
FROM:
JENNIFER GROSSMAN
SUBJECT:
ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION CHALLENGE AWARDS
On Wednesday, December 2 at 2:30 p.m. in the East Room,
you
Bill
will deliver remarks (8 mins./cards) upon presenting the
Presidential Medals for Environmental Excellence. Nine
recipients will be receiving the medal -- the nation's highest
environmental honor.
Reilli
Your remarks highlight the environmental accomplishments of
your administration, while commending the medal recipients for
their outstanding achievements.
(Grossman)
November 23, 1992
Draft Two
ENVIRO
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS
THE EAST ROOM
DECEMBER 2, 1992
Welcome everyone to the White House. [Acknowledgments] And
a special welcome to the nine medal and thirteen citation
recipients. Congratulations.
I'm not going to make a long-winded speech today. \ I take
the Clean Air Act very seriously. 11 But I've done a lot of
thinking over the past two weeks, and I'd like to share some of
my reflections.
Over the next few years I reckon I'll be spending a lot of
time in what Teddy Roosevelt called "the great cathedral of the
outdoors;" and I'll remember what we've done to conserve it, and
preserve it
and I'll be proud of an teams efforts.
my
The was born out of the concerns of
a President, an outdoorsman, and a grandfather. Our approach
signalled a step forward: Away from the old, outdated ideas of
"command and control" conservation -- to a more market-oriented,
decentralized philosophy of environmental action. Those who
forced a false choice between a strong economy and a safer
environment just plain missed the point: we sought to achieve
both -- while sacrificing neither.
We combined a pragmatism about human nature with an idealism
about Mother Nature: an ambitious agenda that sought to harness
the energy of capitalism in the service of the environment.
2
that
Here are the accomplishments Jan proud pass on to a new
generation: The Clean Air Act -- we broke ten years of
congressional gridlock by pushing through the world's most
protective and cost-effective clean air legislation. \ We won
major funding shifts to environmental programs -- increasing the
EPA's budget by almost 50 percent, and increasing funding for
clean energy research and development by 66 percent.
On the law enforcement front we broke new ground and old
records: filing more cases, collecting more penalties, and
putting more polluters behind bars than every previous
administration in history combined.
\
We helped make America's Great Outdoors even greater:
securing over a billion dollars to expand parks, wetlands,
wildlife refuges, campgrounds, and scenic rivers. \ We decided
to end clear-cutting as a standard practice on federal land. And
our America the Beautiful initiative has planted more than two
million new trees all across this great land. \
We ensured that America's seas would still be "shining":
ending ocean dumping of sewage sludge \ proposing and signing a
tough oil pollution bill \ and imposing a 10-year moratorium on
oil and gas leasing over vast areas of our ecologically-sensitive
coasts. 11
We've launched a new generation of clean energy
technologies, not only by increasing funding for research and
development, but also by creating incentives for their use. And
3
we pushed through comprehensive national energy legislation that
will guide our country into the next century.
\
In terms of federal leadership, we've tripled funding for
federal facility cleanups \ secured over a hundred enforceable
cleanup agreements for federal facilities \ and signed executive
orders spurring the federal government to take the lead in
increasing energy efficiency, recycling, and waste reduction.
\
And finally, we've insisted that a new world order include a
cleaner world environment. We reached over twenty new
international environmental agreements. \ For example, we
reduced Poland's debt in order to help them fund a new
environmental foundation. We also launched the Environmental
Center in Budapest -- to help countries in central and eastern
Europe.
We made America the world leader in the phaseout of CFCs.
We led the way to global bans on driftnet fishing. We built
environmental cooperation into trade negotiations with Mexico;
expanded debt-for-nature swaps with Latin America; created
networks for cooperation with Asia; and our comprehensive,
action-oriented approach to global climate change was ratified by
the Senate and adopted by the world community.
At the same time that we renewed our national commitment to
the environment, we redoubled our efforts to support and
encourage people like you. Everyone in this room today has
demonstrated the principles of a new environmentalism.
4
was
establish
Lestablished this national environmental awards program to
honor those who've honored the environment. Some here have
forged innovative partnerships -- environmental alliances that
are protecting our wetlands, preserving our resources, and
preparing a new generation of environmental leadership. 11
Others here have taken the lead in combining sound business
with a safer environment -- a smart, new merger between
profitability and preservation.
Still others are pioneers on the frontier of environmental
technology: finding ways to remove CFC production from
manufacturing; or reduce pollution while recycling metal scrap.
Finally we've got recipients here who are cultivating our
human resources to conserve our natural ones. Leaders, like
Hazel Johnson, who realize that the greening of America is
a
truly a grassroots operation. or the Environmental Education
Program, teaching our children how to care for the great land
they will inherit. 11
I remember back in July I was out west visiting Sequoia
National Park. There was a camp there for inner-city youngsters,
Pyles Boys Camp I think it was called. I remember quoting Teddy
Roosevelt talking about the "beautiful gifts" we receive from
nature -- gifts we "ought to hand on as a precious heritage to
[our] children and [our] children's children."
That heritage is the family legacy that all Americans share,
and share responsibility for. Each of you understands President
Roosevelt's challenge. Each of you has acted on it. For that
5
you have my admiration, my respect, and my gratitude. Now, Mike,
if you'd hand out the medals.
#
#
#
Document No. 364554
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
11/30/92
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
SUBJECT:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION CHALLENGE AWARDS
12/02/92
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCBRIDE
BAKER
MOORE
SCOWCROFT
MULLINS
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BATES
PORTER
BRADY
PROVOST
BROMLEY
ROSS
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
GRAY
FIRESTONE
MCGROARTY
HOLIDAY
DELAND
HORNER
REMARKS:
The attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
2 NOV 30 P3: 48
November 30, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
DAN McGROARTY Dmr.
FROM:
JENNIFER GROSSMAN
SUBJECT:
ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION CHALLENGE AWARDS
On Wednesday, December 2 at 2:30 p.m. in the East Room, you
will deliver remarks (8 mins./cards) upon presenting the
Presidential Medals for Environmental Excellence. Nine
recipients will be receiving the medal -- the nation's highest
environmental honor.
Your remarks highlight the environmental accomplishments of
your administration, while commending the medal recipients for
their outstanding achievements.
(Grossman)
November 23, 1992
Draft Two
ENVIRO
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS
THE EAST ROOM
DECEMBER 2, 1992
Welcome everyone to the White House. [Acknowledgments]. And
a special welcome to the nine medal and thirteen citation
recipients. Congratulations.
I'm not going to make a long-winded speech today. \ I take
the Clean Air Act very seriously. 11 But I've done a lot of
thinking over the past two weeks, and I'd like to share some of
my reflections.
Over the next few years I reckon I'll be spending a lot of
time in what Teddy Roosevelt called "the great cathedral of the
outdoors;" and I'll remember what we've done to conserve it, and
preserve it
and I'll be proud.
The environmental presidency was born out of the concerns of
a President, an outdoorsman, and a grandfather. Our approach
signalled a step forward: Away from the old, outdated ideas of
"command and control" conservation -- to a more market-oriented,
decentralized philosophy of environmental action. Those who
forced a false choice between a strong economy and a safer
environment just plain missed the point: we sought to achieve
both -- while sacrificing neither.
We combined a pragmatism about human nature with an idealism
about Mother Nature: an ambitious agenda that sought to harness
the energy of capitalism in the service of the environment.
2
Here are the accomplishments I am proud to pass on to a new
generation: The Clean Air Act -- we broke ten years of
congressional gridlock by pushing through the world's most
protective and cost-effective clean air legislation. \ We won
major funding shifts to environmental programs -- increasing the
EPA's budget by almost 50 percent, and increasing funding for
clean energy research and development by 66 percent.
On the law enforcement front we broke new ground and old
records: filing more cases, collecting more penalties, and
putting more polluters behind bars than every previous
administration in history combined.
\
We helped make America's Great Outdoors even greater:
securing over a billion dollars to expand parks, wetlands,
wildlife refuges, campgrounds, and scenic rivers. \ We decided
to end clear-cutting as a standard practice on federal land. And
our America the Beautiful initiative has planted more than two
million new trees all across this great land. \
We ensured that America's seas would still be "shining":
ending ocean dumping of sewage sludge \ proposing and signing a
tough oil pollution bill \ and imposing a 10-year moratorium on
oil and gas leasing over vast areas of our ecologically-sensitive
coasts. 11
We've launched a new generation of clean energy
technologies, not only by increasing funding for research and
development, but also by creating incentives for their use. And
3
we pushed through comprehensive national energy legislation that
will guide our country into the next century.
\
In terms of federal leadership, we've tripled funding for
federal facility cleanups \ secured over a hundred enforceable
cleanup agreements for federal facilities \ and signed executive
orders spurring the federal government to take the lead in
increasing energy efficiency, recycling, and waste reduction.
\
And finally, we've insisted that a new world order include a
cleaner world environment. We reached over twenty new
international environmental agreements. \ For example, we
reduced Poland's debt in order to help them fund a new
environmental foundation. We also launched the Environmental
Center in Budapest -- to help countries in central and eastern
Europe.
We made America the world leader in the phaseout of CFCs.
We led the way to global bans on driftnet fishing. We built
environmental cooperation into trade negotiations with Mexico;
expanded debt-for-nature swaps with Latin America; created
networks for cooperation with Asia; and our comprehensive,
action-oriented approach to global climate change was ratified by
the Senate and adopted by the world community.
At the same time that we renewed our national commitment to
the environment, we redoubled our efforts to support and
encourage people like you. Everyone in this room today has
demonstrated the principles of a new environmentalism.
4
I established this national environmental awards program to
honor those who've honored the environment. Some here have
forged innovative partnerships -- environmental alliances that
are protecting our wetlands, preserving our resources, and
preparing a new generation of environmental leadership. 11
Others here have taken the lead in combining sound business
with a safer environment -- a smart, new merger between
profitability and preservation. 11
Still others are pioneers on the frontier of environmental
technology: finding ways to remove CFC production from
manufacturing; or reduce pollution while recycling metal scrap.
Finally we've got recipients here who are cultivating our
human resources to conserve our natural ones. Leaders, like
Hazel Johnson, who realize that the greening of America is a
truly a grassroots operation. Or the Environmental Education
Program, teaching our children how to care for the great land
they will inherit. 11
I remember back in July I was out west visiting Sequoia
National Park. There was a camp there for inner-city youngsters,
Pyles Boys Camp I think it was called. I remember quoting Teddy
Roosevelt talking about the "beautiful gifts" we receive from
nature -- gifts we "ought to hand on as a precious heritage to
[our] children and [our] children's children."
That heritage is the family legacy that all Americans share,
and share responsibility for. Each of you understands President
Roosevelt's challenge. Each of you has acted on it. For that
5
you have my admiration, my respect, and my gratitude. Now, Mike,
if you'd hand out the medals.
#
#
#
ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS \ EAST ROOM
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1992 \ 2:30 P.M.
WELCOME EVERYONE TO THE WHITE HOUSE. I
WANT TO RECOGNIZE OUR CABINET MEMBERS --
ADMIRAL WATKINS, WHO BROUGHT OUR NATIONAL
ENERGY STRATEGY THROUGH THE CONGRESS, AND
MANUEL LUJAN, WHO'S HELPED EXPAND OUR PARKS
AND REFUGES.
- 2 -
SECRETARY FRANKLIN -- HER TEAM HAS BEEN OUT
THERE PUSHING THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. DON ATWOOD, OUR
DEPUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, WHO BROUGHT AN
ENVIRONMENTAL ETHIC TO EVERYTHING FROM BASIC
TRAINING TO THE CONDUCT OF DESERT STORM.
SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION ANDY CARD.
GOVERNOR LAWTON CHILES IS HERE. SENATOR
PETE DOMENICI. CONGRESSMAN WAYNE GILCREST.
- 3 -
CONGRESSMAN PORTER Goss. I WANT TO RESERVE A
VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO BILL REILLY, OUR ABLE
EPA ADMINISTRATOR; MIKE DELAND, CHAIRMAN OF
THE COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND YOUR
OUTSTANDING STAFF -- YOU'VE DONE A GREAT JOB.
AND FINALLY, I WANT TO SALUTE THE AWARDS
PARTNERS FOR MAKING THIS DAY POSSIBLE:
- 4 -
GIL GROSVENOR [GROVE-NER] OF THE NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY; FRANK BENNACK OF THE
HEARST CORPORATION; JOHN JOHNSTONE OF THE
BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE; AND KATHRYN FULLER OF
THE WORLD WILDLIFE FUND. I WANT TO THANK THE
AWARDS SELECTION COMMITTEE -- ESPECIALLY
FORMER SENATORS ROBERT STAFFORD AND GAYLORD
NELSON.
- 5 -
BUT MOST OF ALL, I WANT TO EXTEND A SPECIAL
WELCOME TO OUR GUESTS OF HONOR -- THE NINE
MEDAL AND THIRTEEN CITATION RECIPIENTS.
CONGRATULATIONS.
I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE A LONG-WINDED
SPEECH TODAY. \ I TAKE THE CLEAN AIR AcT
VERY SERIOUSLY. 11 BUT I'VE DONE A LOT OF
THINKING OVER THE PAST THREE WEEKS, AND I'D
LIKE TO SHARE SOME OF MY REFLECTIONS.
- 6 -
OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS I RECKON I'LL BE
SPENDING A LOT OF TIME IN WHAT TEDDY
ROOSEVELT CALLED "THE GREAT CATHEDRAL OF THE
OUTDOORS;" AND I'LL REMEMBER WHAT WE'VE DONE
TO CONSERVE IT, AND PRESERVE IT
AND I'LL
BE PROUD OF OUR TEAM'S EFFORTS.
MY ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY WAS BORN OUT OF
THE CONCERNS OF A PRESIDENT, AN OUTDOORSMAN,
AND A GRANDFATHER.
- 7 -
OUR APPROACH SIGNALLED A STEP BEYOND:
"COMMAND AND CONTROL" REGULATION -- TOWARD A
MORE MARKET-ORIENTED, DECENTRALIZED
PHILOSOPHY OF ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION. THOSE
WHO SAID WE POSED A FALSE CHOICE BETWEEN A
STRONG ECONOMY AND A SAFER ENVIRONMENT JUST
PLAIN MISSED THE POINT: WE SOUGHT TO ACHIEVE
BOTH -- WHILE SACRIFICING NEITHER.
- 8 -
WE COMBINED A PRAGMATISM ABOUT HUMAN
NATURE WITH AN IDEALISM ABOUT MOTHER NATURE:
AN AMBITIOUS AGENDA THAT HARNESSED THE ENERGY
OF CAPITALISM IN THE SERVICE OF THE
ENVIRONMENT.
HERE ARE A FEW OF THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS
THAT WE PROUDLY PASS ON TO A NEW GENERATION:
- 9 -
THE CLEAN AIR Act -- WE BROKE TEN YEARS OF
CONGRESSIONAL GRIDLOCK BY PUSHING THROUGH THE
WORLD'S MOST PROTECTIVE AND COST-EFFECTIVE
CLEAN AIR LEGISLATION. AND WE'VE ALREADY
PROPOSED OR FINALIZED RULES THAT PROMISE TO
GET AT 85% OF THE POLLUTION REDUCTIONS
TARGETED IN THIS LAW.
\
- 10 -
WE WON MAJOR FUNDING SHIFTS TO ENVIRONMENTAL
PROGRAMS -- INCREASING THE EPA's budget BY
ALMOST 50 PERCENT, AND INCREASING FUNDING FOR
CLEAN ENERGY RESEARCH AND development BY 66
PERCENT. WE ENLISTED THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN
VOLUNTARY POLLUTION PREVENTION EFFORTS THAT
ARE RESHAPING AMERICA'S INDUSTRIES MAKING US
LEANER, MORE EFFICIENT AND REDUCING TOXIC
POLLUTION BY HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF POUNDS A
YEAR.
- 11 -
ON THE LAW ENFORCEMENT FRONT WE BROKE NEW
GROUND AND OLD RECORDS: FILING MORE CASES,
COLLECTING MORE PENALTIES, AND PUTTING MORE
POLLUTERS BEHIND BARS THAN EVERY PREVIOUS
ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY COMBINED.
\
WE HELPED MAKE AMERICA'S GREAT OUTDOORS
EVEN GREATER: SECURING OVER A BILLION DOLLARS
TO EXPAND PARKS, WETLANDS, WILDLIFE REFUGES,
CAMPGROUNDS, AND SCENIC RIVERS.
\
- 12 -
WE DECIDED TO END CLEAR-CUTTING AS A STANDARD
PRACTICE ON FEDERAL LAND. AND OUR AMERICA
THE BEAUTIFUL INITIATIVE HAS PLANTED MORE
THAN TWO MILLION NEW TREES ALL ACROSS THIS
GREAT LAND.
\
- 13 =
WE ENSURED THAT AMERICA'S SEAS WOULD
STILL BE "SHINING": ENDING OCEAN DUMPING OF
SEWAGE SLUDGE \ PROPOSING AND SIGNING A TOUGH
OIL POLLUTION BILL \ AND IMPOSING A 10-YEAR
MORATORIUM ON OIL AND GAS LEASING OVER VAST
AREAS OF OUR ECOLOGICALLY-SENSITIVE COASTS.
WE'VE LAUNCHED A NEW GENERATION OF CLEAN
ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES, NOT ONLY BY INCREASING
FUNDING FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, BUT
ALSO BY CREATING INCENTIVES FOR THEIR USE.
- 14 -
AND WE PUSHED THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE NATIONAL
ENERGY LEGISLATION THAT WILL GUIDE OUR
COUNTRY INTO THE NEXT CENTURY.
\
- 15 -
IN TERMS OF FEDERAL LEADERSHIP, WE'VE
TRIPLED FUNDING FOR FEDERAL FACILITY CLEANUPS
\
SECURED OVER A HUNDRED ENFORCEABLE CLEANUP
AGREEMENTS FOR FEDERAL FACILITIES \ AND
SIGNED EXECUTIVE ORDERS SPURRING THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT TO TAKE THE LEAD IN INCREASING
ENERGY EFFICIENCY, RECYCLING, WASTE
REDUCTION, AND CONVERTING THE FEDERAL FLEET
TO ALTERNATIVE FUELS.
\
- 16 -
AND FINALLY, WE'VE INSISTED THAT A NEW
WORLD ORDER INCLUDE A CLEANER WORLD
ENVIRONMENT. WE REACHED OVER TWENTY NEW
INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS.
\
FOR EXAMPLE, WE REDUCED POLAND'S DEBT IN
ORDER TO HELP THEM FUND A NEW ENVIRONMENTAL
FOUNDATION. WE ALSO LAUNCHED THE
ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER IN BUDAPEST -- TO HELP
COUNTRIES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE.
- 17 -
WE MADE AMERICA THE WORLD LEADER IN THE
PHASEOUT OF OZONE DEPLETING CFCs. WE LED THE
WAY TO GLOBAL BANS ON DRIFTNET FISHING.
- 18 -
WE BUILT ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION INTO TRADE
NEGOTIATIONS WITH MEXICO; EXPANDED DEBT-FOR-
NATURE SWAPS TO PROTECT THE RAIN FORESTS IN
LATIN AMERICA; CREATED NETWORKS FOR
COOPERATION WITH ASIA; AND OUR COMPREHENSIVE,
ACTION-ORIENTED APPROACH TO GLOBAL CLIMATE
CHANGE WAS RATIFIED BY THE SENATE AND ADOPTED
BY THE WORLD COMMUNITY.
- 19 -
AT THE SAME TIME THAT WE RENEWED OUR
NATIONAL COMMITMENT TO THE ENVIRONMENT, WE
REDOUBLED OUR EFFORTS TO SUPPORT AND
ENCOURAGE PEOPLE LIKE YOU. EVERYONE IN THIS
ROOM TODAY HAS DEMONSTRATED THE PRINCIPLES OF
A NEW ENVIRONMENTALISM.
THIS NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AWARDS
PROGRAM WAS ESTABLISHED TO HONOR THOSE WHO'VE
HONORED THE ENVIRONMENT.
- 20 -
SOME HERE HAVE FORGED INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIPS
-- ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCES THAT ARE
PROTECTING OUR WETLANDS, PRESERVING OUR
RESOURCES, AND PREPARING A NEW GENERATION OF
ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP. 11
OTHERS HERE HAVE TAKEN THE LEAD IN
COMBINING SOUND BUSINESS WITH A SAFER
ENVIRONMENT -- A SMART, NEW MERGER BETWEEN
PROFITABILITY AND PRESERVATION. 11
- 21 - -
STILL OTHERS ARE PIONEERS ON THE FRONTIER
OF ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY: FINDING WAYS TO
REMOVE CFC PRODUCTION FROM MANUFACTURING; OR
REDUCE POLLUTION WHILE RECYCLING METAL SCRAP.
FINALLY WE'VE GOT RECIPIENTS HERE WHO ARE
CULTIVATING OUR HUMAN RESOURCES TO CONSERVE
OUR NATURAL ONES. LEADERS, LIKE HAZEL
JOHNSON, WHO REALIZE THAT THE GREENING OF
AMERICA IS A TRULY A GRASSROOTS OPERATION.
- 22 -
OR THE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROGRAM,
TEACHING OUR CHILDREN HOW TO CARE FOR THE
GREAT LAND THEY WILL INHERIT. 11
I REMEMBER BACK IN JULY I WAS OUT WEST
VISITING SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK. THERE WAS A
CAMP THERE FOR INNER-CITY YOUNGSTERS, PYLES
Boys CAMP I THINK IT WAS CALLED.
- 23 -
I REMEMBER QUOTING TEDDY ROOSEVELT TALKING
ABOUT THE "BEAUTIFUL GIFTS" WE RECEIVE FROM
NATURE -- GIFTS WE "OUGHT TO HAND ON AS A
PRECIOUS HERITAGE TO [OUR] CHILDREN AND [OUR]
CHILDREN'S CHILDREN."
THAT HERITAGE IS THE FAMILY LEGACY THAT
ALL AMERICANS SHARE, AND SHARE RESPONSIBILITY
FOR. EACH OF YOU UNDERSTANDS PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT'S CHALLENGE.
= 24 -
EACH OF YOU HAS ACTED ON IT. FOR THAT YOU
HAVE MY ADMIRATION, MY RESPECT, AND MY
GRATITUDE. Now, MIKE, IF YOU'D HAND OUT THE
MEDALS.
# # #
(Grossman)
November 23, 1992
Draft Two
ENVIRO
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS
THE EAST ROOM
DECEMBER 2, 1992
Welcome everyone to the White House. I want to recognize
our Cabinet members -- Admiral Watkins, who brought our national
energy strategy through the Congress, and Manuel Lujan, who's
helped expand our parks and refuges. Secretary Franklin -- her
team has been out there pushing the economic benefits of
environmental protection. Don Atwood, our Deputy Secretary of
Defense, who brought an environmental ethic to everything from
basic training to the conduct of Desert Storm. Secretary of
Transportation Andy Card.
Governor Lawton Chiles is here. Senator Pete Domenici.
Congressman Wayne Gilcrest. Congressman Porter Goss. I want to
reserve a very special thanks to Bill Reilly, our able EPA
Administrator; Mike Deland, Chairman of the Council on
Environmental Quality and your outstanding staff -- you've done
a great job.
And finally, I want to salute the Awards Partners for making
this day possible: Gil Groveshor of the National Geographic
Society; Frank Bennack of the Hearst Corporation; John Johnstone
of the Business Roundtable; and Kathryn Fuller of the World
Wildlife Fund. I want to thank the Awards Selection Committee -
- especially former Senators Robert Stafford and Gaylord Nelson.
But most of all, I want to extend a special welcome to our guests
2
of honor -- the nine medal and thirteen citation recipients.
Congratulations.
I'm not going to make a long-winded speech today. \ I take
the Clean Air Act very seriously. 11 But I've done a lot of
thinking over the past three weeks, and I'd like to share some of
my reflections.
Over the next few years I reckon I'll be spending a lot of
time in what Teddy Roosevelt called "the great cathedral of the
outdoors;" and I'll remember what we've done to conserve it, and
preserve it
and I'll be proud of our team's efforts.
My environmental policy was born out of the concerns of a
President, an outdoorsman, and a grandfather. Our approach
signalled a step beyond: "command and control" regulation --
toward a more market-oriented, decentralized philosophy of
environmental action. Those who said we posed a false choice
between a strong economy and a safer environment just plain
missed the point: we sought to achieve both -- while sacrificing
neither.
We combined a pragmatism about human nature with an idealism
about Mother Nature: an ambitious agenda that harnessed the
energy of capitalism in the service of the environment.
Here are a few of the accomplishments that we proudly pass
on to a new generation: The Clean Air Act -- we broke ten years
of congressional gridlock by pushing through the world's most
protective and cost-effective clean air legislation. And we've
already proposed or finalized rules that promise to get at 85% of
3
the pollution reductions targeted in this law. \ We won major
funding shifts to environmental programs -- increasing the EPA's
budget by almost 50 percent, and increasing funding for clean
energy research and development by 66 percent. We enlisted the
private sector in voluntary pollution prevention efforts that are
reshaping America's industries making us leaner, more efficient
and reducing toxic pollution by hundreds of millions of pounds a
year.
On the law enforcement front we broke new ground and old
records: filing more cases, collecting more penalties, and
putting more polluters behind bars than every previous
administration in history combined.
\
We helped make America's Great Outdoors even greater:
securing over a billion dollars to expand parks, wetlands,
wildlife refuges, campgrounds, and scenic rivers. \ We decided
to end clear-cutting as a standard practice on federal land. And
our America the Beautiful initiative has planted more than two
million new trees all across this great land. \
We ensured that America's seas would still be "shining":
ending ocean dumping of sewage sludge \ proposing and signing a
tough oil pollution bill \ and imposing a 10-year moratorium on
oil and gas leasing over vast areas of our ecologically-sensitive
coasts. 11
We've launched a new generation of clean energy
technologies, not only by increasing funding for research and
development, but also by creating incentives for their use. And
4
we pushed through comprehensive national energy legislation that
will guide our country into the next century.
In terms of federal leadership, we've tripled funding for
federal facility cleanups \ secured over a hundred enforceable
cleanup agreements for federal facilities \ and signed executive
orders spurring the federal government to take the lead in
increasing energy efficiency, recycling, waste reduction, and
converting the federal fleet to alternative fuels. \
And finally, we've insisted that a new world order include a
cleaner world environment. We reached over twenty new
international environmental agreements. \ For example, we
reduced Poland's debt in order to help them fund a new
environmental foundation. We also launched the Environmental
Center in Budapest -- to help countries in central and eastern
Europe.
We made America the world leader in the phaseout of ozone
depleting CFCs. We led the way to global bans on driftnet
fishing. We built environmental cooperation into trade
negotiations with Mexico; expanded debt-for-nature swaps to
protect the rain forests in Latin America; created networks for
cooperation with Asia; and our comprehensive, action-oriented
approach to global climate change was ratified by the Senate and
adopted by the world community.
At the same time that we renewed our national commitment to
the environment, we redoubled our efforts to support and
5
encourage people like you. Everyone in this room today has
demonstrated the principles of a new environmentalism.
This national environmental awards program was established
to honor those who've honored the environment. Some here have
forged innovative partnerships -- environmental alliances that
are protecting our wetlands, preserving our resources, and
preparing a new generation of environmental leadership. 11
Others here have taken the lead in combining sound business
with a safer environment -- a smart, new merger between
profitability and preservation.
Still others are pioneers on the frontier of environmental
technology: finding ways to remove CFC production from
manufacturing; or reduce pollution while recycling metal scrap.
Finally we've got recipients here who are cultivating our
human resources to conserve our natural ones. Leaders, like
Hazel Johnson, who realize that the greening of America is a
truly a grassroots operation. Or the Environmental Education
Program, teaching our children how to care for the great land
they will inherit.
I remember back in July I was out west visiting Sequoia
National Park. There was a camp there for inner-city youngsters,
Pyles Boys Camp I think it was called. I remember quoting Teddy
Roosevelt talking about the "beautiful gifts" we receive from
nature -- gifts we "ought to hand on as a precious heritage to
[our] children and [our] children's children."
6
That heritage is the family legacy that all Americans share,
and share responsibility for. Each of you understands President
Roosevelt's challenge. Each of you has acted on it. For that
you have my admiration, my respect, and my gratitude. Now, Mike,
if you'd hand out the medals.
#
#
#
12/1 -- 5:00 pm
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Wednesday, December 2, 1992
The East Room
President's Environmental Awards
Welcome to the White House. I want to salute several members of
my environment and economics team:
EPA Administrator Bill Reilly, who has done so much for
America's and the world's environment,
Admiral Watkins, who squired our national energy strategy
through the Congress, and Manuel Lujan, who's overseen the
creation of new parks and wildlife refuges;
Secretary Barbara Franklin--her team has been pushing the
economic benefits of environmental protection.
Don Atwood, our Deputy Secretary of Defense, who brought an
environmental ethic to everything from basic training to the
conduct of Desert Storm.
I also want to salute the Award Partners for making this day
possible: Gil Grovesnor of the National Geographic Society;
Frank Bennack of the Hearst Corporation; John Johnstone,
representing the Business Roundtable; and Kathryn Fuller of the
World Wildlife Fund.
Let me also thank the Awards Selection Committee--including
former Senators Robert Stafford and Gaylord Nelson--and the
Technical Advisers who contributed their time and expertise to
this program.
And a special welcome to the nine Medal and 13 Citation
recipients. Congratulations
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
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12/1 -- 5:00 pm
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Wednesday, December 2, 1992
The East Room
President's Environmental Awards
Welcome to the White House. I want to salute several members of
my environment and economics team:
EPA Administrator Bill Reilly, who has done so much for
America's and the world's environment,
Admiral Watkins, who squired our national energy strategy
through the Congress, and Manuel Lujan, who's overseen the
creation of new parks and wildlife refuges;
Secretary Barbara Franklin--her team has been pushing the
economic benefits of environmental protection.
Don Atwood, our Deputy Secretary of Defense, who brought an
environmental ethic to everything from basic training to the
conduct of Desert Storm.
I also want to salute the Award Partners for making this day
possible: Gil Grovesnor of the National Geographic Society;
Frank Bennack of the Hearst Corporation; John Johnstone,
representing the Business Roundtable; and Kathryn Fuller of the
World Wildlife Fund.
Let me also thank the Awards Selection Committee--including
former Senators Robert Stafford and Gaylord Nelson--and the
Technical Advisers who contributed their time and expertise to
this program.
And a special welcome to the nine Medal and 13 Citation
recipients. Congratulations
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Wednesday, December 2, 1992
The East Room
President's Environmental Awards
Welcome to the White House. I want to salute several members of
my environment and economics team:
EPA Administrator Bill Reilly, who has done so much for
America's and the world's environment,
Admiral Watkins, who squired our national energy strategy
through the Congress, and Manuel Lujan, who's overseen the
creation of new parks and wildlife refuges;
Secretary Barbara Franklin--her team has been pushing the
economic benefits of environmental protection.
Don Atwood, our Deputy Secretary of Defense, who brought an
environmental ethic to everything from basic training to the
conduct of Desert Storm.
Andrland
I also want to salute the Award Partners for making this day
possible: Gil Grovesnor of the National Geographic Society;
Frank Bennack of the Hearst Corporation; John Johnstone,
representing the Business Roundtable; and Kathryn Fuller of the
World Wildlife Fund.
Let me also thank the Awards Selection Committee--including
former Senators Robert Stafford and Gaylord Nelson--and the
Technical Advisers who contributed their time and expertise to
this program.
And a special welcome to the nine Medal and 13 Citation
recipients. Congratulations
(Grossman)
November 23, 1992
Draft Two
ENVIRO
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS
THE EAST ROOM
DECEMBER 2, 1992
Welcome everyone to the White House. I want to recognize
our Cabinet members -- Admiral Watkins, who brought our national
energy strategy through the Congress, and Manuel Lujan, who's
helped expand our parks and refuges. Secretary Franklin -- her
team has been out there pushing the economic benefits of
environmental protection. Don Atwood, our Deputy Secretary of
Defense -- who helped make sure we won Desert Storm without
wasting the desert's environment. Secretary of Transportation
Andy Card.
Governor Lawton Chiles is here. Senator Pete Domenici.
Congressman Wayne Gilcrest. Congressman Porter Goss. I want to
able EPA Admin
send a special thanks to Bill Reilly, Mike Deland, and all the
wonderful folks over at the Council of Environmental Quality
GN. Sens
you've done an outstanding job. And finally, I want to extend a
special welcome to our guests of honor -- the nine medal and
thirteen citation recipients. Congratulations.
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nature -- gifts we "ought to hand on as a precious heritage to
[our] children and [our] children's children."
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and share responsibility for. Each of you understands President
Roosevelt's challenge. Each of you has acted on it. For that
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Enclosed are comments from staff members of the Office of
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represent the official position of the Director of OMB or of the
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 11/25/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: Noon 11/30/92
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS
THE EAST ROOM
SUBJECT:
DECEMBER 2, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCBRIDE
BAKER
MOORE
SCOWCROFT
MULLINS
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BATES
PORTER
BRADY
BROMLEY
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
ZOELLICK
FIRESTONE
GRAY
MCGROARTY
HOLIDAY
HORNER
DELAND
REMARKS:
Please provide your comments on the attached directly to
Dan McGroarty, RM. 122, x2930, with a copy to this office
NO LATER THAN NOON, MONDAY, NOV. 30, 1992. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
See comments
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Grossman)
November 23, 1992
Draft One
ENVIRO
210725 All: 27
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS
THE EAST ROOM
DECEMBER 2, 1992
Welcome everyone to the White House. [Acknowledgments]. And
a special welcome to the nine awards winners and thirteen
citation recipients, congratulations.
[[One of our recipients here today is called "Keep Texas
Beautiful.' I want them to know that we'll soon be making a
contribution to the state's wildlife preserves
Now where's
Millie? I guess I frightened her off. ]]
I'm not going to make a long-winded speech today. \ I take
the Clean Air Act very seriously. 11 But I've had a lot of time
to think, over the past two weeks, and I'd like to share some of
my reflections.
It's a strange time now: a twilight between the dusk of one
administration and the dawn of another. Over the next few years
I reckon I'll be spending a lot of time under what Teddy
Roosevelt called "the great cathedral of the outdoors;" and I'll
remember what we've done to conserve it, and preserve it
and
I'll be proud.
The environmental presidency was born out of the concerns of
a President, an outdoorsman, and a grandfather. Our approach
relied on sound policies over soundbites. We resisted the "green
fringe" of environmental extremism: holding fast to the principle
2
that only a growing economy can provide the resources needed to
protect the environment.
We combined a pragmatism about human nature with an idealism
about Mother Nature: an ambitious agenda that sought to harness
the energy of capitalism in the service of conservation.
Here are the accomplishments I am proud to pass on to a new
generation: The Clean Air Act -- we broke ten years of
congressional gridlock by proposing and signing the world's most
protective and cost-effective clean air legislation. We won
major funding shifts to environmental programs -- increasing the
EPA's budget by almost a half, and increasing funding for clean
energy R&D by 66%.
On the law enforcement fronts we broke new ground and old
records: filing more cases, collecting more penalties, and
previous
putting more polluters behind bars than in all of EPA's 18 years
history.
\
Cogswell
We helped make America's Great Outdoors even greater:
4586
securing over $750 million to expand parks, wildlife refuges,
campgrounds, and scenic rivers. \ We ended the standard practice
as a standard practice
of clear-cutting on federal land And to make sure no one would
miss the forest for the trees, we planted over two million new
trees all across this great land.
We ensured that America's seas would still be "shining":
ending ocean dumping of sewage sludge \ signing a tough oil
pollution bill \ and imposing a 10-year moratorium on oil and gas
leasing.
3
We've made real progress in conserving energy -- by
redefining how we use it, and re-refining what we use. We
increased funding for energy conservation and renewables by 66%
in FY '92. We launched more than a dozen international
partnerships to spur clean technology development and exports.
And we proposed comprehensive national energy legislation --
legislation I invite our new president to use as his guide.
\
In terms of federal leadership, we've tripled funding for
federal facility cleanups \ secured over a hundred enforceable
cleanup agreements for federal facilities \ and signed executive
orders spurring the federal government to take the lead in
increasing energy efficiency, recycling, and waste reduction.
\
And finally, we've insisted that a new world order include a
cleaner world environment. We reached over twenty new
international environmental agreements. \ We made America first
Commit to
Bilman
5178
in the world to accelerate the phaseout of CFCs
We weaved
environmental cooperation into trade negotiations with our
neighbors; expanded debt-for-nature swaps with Latin America; and
proposed, signed, and submitted to Congress a comprehensive,
action-oriented global climate treaty.
This awards program itself was established to honor those
who've honored the environment. Some here have forged innovative
partnerships -- environmental alliances that are protecting our
wetlands, preserving our resources, and preparing a new
generation of environmental leadership.
4
Others here have taken the lead in combining sound business
with a safer environment -- a smart, new merger between
profitability and preservation.
Still others are pioneers on the frontier of environmental
technology: finding ways to remove CFC production from
manufacturing; or reduce pollution while recycling metal scrap.
Finally we've got recipients here who are cultivating our
human resources to conserve our natural ones. Leaders, like
Hazel Johnson, who realize that the greening of America is a
truly a grassroots operation. Or the Environmental Education
Program, teaching our children how to care for the great land
they will inherit.
I remember back in July I was out west visiting Sequoia
National Park. There was a camp there for inner-city youngsters,
Pyles Boys Camp I think it was called. I remember quoting Teddy
Roosevelt talking about the "beautiful gifts" we receive from
nature -- gifts we "ought to hand on as a precious heritage to
[our] children and [our] children's children."
That heritage is the family legacy that all Americans share,
and share responsibility for. Each of you understands President
Roosevelt's challenge. Each of you has acted on it. For that
you have my admiration, my respect, and my gratitude. Now, Mike,
if you'd hand out those awards.
#
#
#
Document No. 364554
8656
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 11/25/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: Noon 11/30/92
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS
THE EAST ROOM
SUBJECT:
DECEMBER 2, 1992
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCBRIDE
BAKER
MOORE
SCOWCROFT
MULLINS
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BATES
PORTER
BRADY
BROMLEY
CALIO
SMITH
DEMAREST
TUTWILER
FITZWATER
x
ZOELLICK
FIRESTONE
GRAY
MCGROARTY
HOLIDAY
HORNER
DELAND
REMARKS: called@ 11:00
Please provide your comments on the attached directly to
Dan McGroarty, RM. 122, x2930, with a copy to this office
NO LATER THAN NOON, MONDAY, NOV. 30, 1992. Thank you.
RESPONSE: TO DAN MCGROARTY
November 27, 1992
The NSC staff concurs, without changes, on attached.
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Erent Scowcroft
Ext. 2702
CC: Phillip Brady
(Grossman)
November 23, 1992
Draft One
ENVIRO
25 : 27
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS
THE EAST ROOM
DECEMBER 2, 1992
Welcome everyone to the White House. [Acknowledgments]. And
a special welcome to the nine awards winners and thirteen
citation recipients, congratulations.
[[One of our recipients here today is called "Keep Texas
Beautiful. " I want them to know that we'll soon be making a
contribution to the state's wildlife preserves
Now where's
Millie? I guess I frightened her off. ]]
I'm not going to make a long-winded speech today. \ I take
the Clean Air Act very seriously. 11 But I've had a lot of time
to think, over the past two weeks, and I'd like to share some of
my reflections.
It's a strange time now: a twilight between the dusk of one
administration and the dawn of another. Over the next few years
I reckon I'll be spending a lot of time under what Teddy
Roosevelt called "the great cathedral of the outdoors;" and I'll
remember what we've done to conserve it, and preserve it
and
I'll be proud.
The environmental presidency was born out of the concerns of
a President, an outdoorsman, and a grandfather. Our approach
relied on sound policies over soundbites. We resisted the "green
fringe" of environmental extremism: holding fast to the principle
2
that only a growing economy can provide the resources needed to
protect the environment.
We combined a pragmatism about human nature with an idealism
about Mother Nature: an ambitious agenda that sought to harness
the energy of capitalism in the service of conservation.
Here are the accomplishments I am proud to pass on to a new
generation: The Clean Air Act -- we broke ten years of
congressional gridlock by proposing and signing the world's most
protective and cost-effective clean air legislation. We won
major funding shifts to environmental programs -- increasing the
EPA's budget by almost a half, and increasing funding for clean
energy R&D by 66%.
On the law enforcement fronts we broke new ground and old
records: filing more cases, collecting more penalties, and
previous
putting more polluters behind bars than in all of EPA's v18 years
history.
OMB
We helped make America's Great Outdoors even greater:
securing over $750 million to expand parks, wildlife refuges,
We eNDED
campgrounds, and scenic rivers.
\
We ended the standard practice
as a STANDARD PRACTICE
of clear-cutting on federal land^ And to make sure no one would
miss the forest for the trees, we planted over two million new
trees all across this great land. \
We ensured that America's seas would still be "shining":
ending ocean dumping of sewage sludge \ signing a tough oil
pollution bill \ and imposing a 10-year moratorium on oil and gas
leasing.
3
We've made real progress in conserving energy -- by
redefining how we use it, and re-refining what we use. We
increased funding for energy conservation and renewables by 66%
in FY '92. We launched more than a dozen international
partnerships to spur clean technology development and exports.
And we proposed comprehensive national energy legislation --
legislation I invite our new president to use as his guide.
\
In terms of federal leadership, we've tripled funding for
federal facility cleanups \ secured over a hundred enforceable
cleanup agreements for federal facilities \ and signed executive
orders spurring the federal government to take the lead in
increasing energy efficiency, recycling, and waste reduction.
\
And finally, we've insisted that a new world order include a
cleaner world environment. We reached over twenty new
international environmental agreements. \ We made America first
commit to
in the world to accelerate the phaseout of CFCs. \ We weaved
environmental cooperation into trade negotiations with our
neighbors; expanded debt-for-nature swaps with Latin America; and
proposed, signed, and submitted to Congress a comprehensive,
action-oriented global climate treaty.
This awards program itself was established to honor those
who've honored the environment. Some here have forged innovative
partnerships -- environmental alliances that are protecting our
wetlands, preserving our resources, and preparing a new
generation of environmental leadership.
4
Others here have taken the lead in combining sound business
with a safer environment -- a smart, new merger between
profitability and preservation.
Still others are pioneers on the frontier of environmental
technology: finding ways to remove CFC production from
manufacturing; or reduce pollution while recycling metal scrap.
Finally we've got recipients here who are cultivating our
human resources to conserve our natural ones. Leaders, like
Hazel Johnson, who realize that the greening of America is a
truly a grassroots operation. or the Environmental Education
Program, teaching our children how to care for the great land
they will inherit.
I remember back in July I was out west visiting Sequoia
National Park. There was a camp there for inner-city youngsters,
Pyles Boys Camp I think it was called. I remember quoting Teddy
Roosevelt talking about the "beautiful gifts" we receive from
nature -- gifts we "ought to hand on as a precious heritage to
[our] children and [our] children's children."
That heritage is the family legacy that all Americans share,
and share responsibility for. Each of you understands President
Roosevelt's challenge. Each of you has acted on it. For that
you have my admiration, my respect, and my gratitude. Now, Mike,
if you'd hand out those awards.
#
#
#
Dan
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ENVIRO Two
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS
THE EAST ROOM
DECEMBER 2, 1992
Welcome everyone to the White House. [Acknowledgments]. And
a special welcome to the nine medal and thirteen citation
recipients. Congratulations.
I'm not going to make a long-winded speech today. \ I take
the Clean Air Act very seriously. But I've done a lot of
Three
month?
thinking over the past two weeks, and I'd like to share some of
my reflections.
Over the next few years I recken I'll be spending a lot of
time in what Teddy Roosevelt called "the great cathedral of the
outdoors;" and I'll remember what we've done to conserve it, and
preserve it
and I'll be proud.
The environmental presidency was born out of the concerns of
a President, an outdoorsman, and a grandfather. Our approach
signalled a step forward: beyond Away from the old, outdated ideas of
regulation toward
"command and control" conservation -- to a more market-oriented
1
decentralized philosophy of environmental action. Those who Said
we posed
forced a false choice between a strong economy and a safer
environment just plain missed the point: we sought to achieve
both -- while sacrificing neither.
We combined a pragmatism about human nature with an idealism
about Mother Nature: an ambitious agenda that sought to harnes ed
the energy of capitalism in the service of the environment.
(a fav of,
2
Here are the accomplishments I am proud to pass on to a new
generation: The Clean Air Act -- we broke ten years of
congressional gridlock by pushing through the world's most
Proposing Signing T implementing
protective and cost-effective clean air legislation. \ We won
major funding shifts to environmental programs -- increasing the
EPA's budget by almost 50 percent, and increasing funding for
clean energy research and development by 66 percent.
On the law enforcement front we broke new ground and old
records: filing more cases, collecting more penalties, and
putting more polluters behind bars than every previous
administration in history combined.
We helped make America's Great Outdoors even greater:
securing over a billion dollars to expand parks, wetlands,
wildlife refuges, campgrounds, and scenic rivers. \ We decided
to end clear-cutting as a standard practice on federal land. And
our America the Beautiful initiative has planted more than two
million new trees all across this great land. \
We ensured that America's seas would still be "shining":
ending ocean dumping of sewage sludge \ proposing and signing
a
tough oil pollution bill \ and imposing a 10-year moratorium on
oil and gas leasing over vast areas of our ecologically-sensitive
coasts. 11
We've launched a new generation of clean energy
technologies, not only by increasing funding for research and
development, but also by creating incentives for their use. And
3
we pushed through comprehensive national energy legislation that
will guide our country into the next century.
In terms of federal leadership, we've tripled funding for
federal facility cleanups \ secured over a hundred enforceable
cleanup agreements for federal facilities and signed executive
orders spurring the federal government to take the lead in
increasing energy efficiency, recycling, and waste reduction.
converting in federal fleet to alleno alternation
And finally, we've insisted that a new world order include
fuels.
cleaner world environment. We reached over twenty new
international environmental agreements.
For example, we
reduced Poland's debt in order to help them fund a new
Weatz evandy
environmental foundation. We also launched the Environmental
Center in Budapest -- to help countries in central and eastern
Europe
Bone deplating
We made America the world leader in the phaseout of CFCs.
We led the way to global bans on driftnet fishing. We built
environmental cooperation into trade negotiations with Mexico;
to protect me nain trests
expanded debt-for-nature swaps with Latin America; created
networks for cooperation with Asia; and our comprehensive,
action-oriented approach to global climate change was ratified by
the Senate and adopted by the world community.
At the same time that we renewed our national commitment to
the environment, we redoubled our efforts to support and
encourage people like you. Everyone in this room today has
demonstrated the principles of a new environmentalism.
4
I established this national environmental awards program to
honor those who've honored the environment. Some here have
forged innovative partnerships -- environmental alliances that
are protecting our wetlands, preserving our resources, and
preparing a new generation of environmental leadership. 11
Others here have taken the lead in combining sound business
with a safer environment -- a smart, new merger between
profitability and preservation. \\
Still others are pioneers on the frontier of environmental
technology: finding ways to remove CFC production from
manufacturing; or reduce pollution while recycling metal scrap.
have
Finally we've got recipients here who are cultivating our
human resources to conserve our natural ones. Leaders, like
Hazel Johnson, who realize that the greening of America is a
truly a grassroots operation. Or the Environmental Education
Program, teaching our children how to care for the great land
they will inherit. 11
I remember back in July I was out west visiting Sequoia
National Park. There was a camp there for inner-city youngsters,
Pyles Boys Camp I think it was called. I remember quoting Teddy
Roosevelt talking about the "beautiful gifts" we receive from
nature -- gifts we "ought to hand on as a precious heritage to
[our] children and [our] children's children."
That heritage is the family legacy that all Americans share,
and share responsibility for. Each of you understands President
Roosevelt's challenge. Each of you has acted on it. For that
5
you have my admiration, my respect, and my gratitude. Now, Mike,
if you'd hand out the medals.
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Draft One
ENVIRO
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS
THE EAST ROOM
DECEMBER 2, 1992
Welcome everyone to the White House. [Acknowledgments]. And
a special welcome to the nine awards winners and thirteen
citation recipients, congratulations.
[[One of our recipients here today is called "Keep Texas
Beautiful. " I want them to know that we'll soon be making a
contribution to the state's wildlife preserves
Now where's
Millie? I guess I frightened her off.
I'm not going to make a long-winded speech today. \ I take
the Clean Air Act very seriously. 11 But I've had a lot of time
to think, over the past two weeks, and I'd like to share some of
my reflections.
It's a strange time now: a twilight between the dusk of one
administration and the dawn of another. Over the next few years
I reckon I'll be spending a lot of time under what Teddy
Roosevelt called "the great cathedral of the outdoors;" and I'll
remember what we've done to conserve it, and preserve it
and
I'll be proud.
The environmental presidency was born out of the concerns of
a President, an outdoorsman, and a grandfather. Our approach
relied on sound policies over soundbites. We resisted the "green
fringe" of environmental extremism: holding fast to the principle
2
that only a growing economy can provide the resources needed to
protect the environment.
We combined a pragmatism about human nature with an idealism
about Mother Nature: an ambitious agenda that sought to harness
the energy of capitalism in the service of conservation.
Here are the accomplishments I am proud to pass on to a new
generation: The Clean Air Act -- we broke ten years of
congressional gridlock by proposing and signing the world's most
protective and cost-effective clean air legislation. \ We won
major funding shifts to environmental programs -- increasing the
EPA's budget by almost a half, and increasing funding for clean
energy R&D by 66%.
On the law enforcement fronts we broke new ground and old
records: filing more cases, collecting more penalties, and
putting more polluters behind bars than in all of EPA's 18 year
history. \
We helped make America's Great Outdoors even greater:
securing over $750 million to expand parks, wildlife refuges,
campgrounds, and scenic rivers. \ We ended the standard practice
of clear-cutting on federal land. And to make sure no one would
miss the forest for the trees, we planted over two million new
trees all across this great land. \
We ensured that America's seas would still be "shining":
ending ocean dumping of sewage sludge \ signing a tough oil
pollution bill \ and imposing a 10-year moratorium on oil and gas
leasing.
3
We've made real progress in conserving energy -- by
redefining how we use it, and re-refining what we use. We
increased funding for energy conservation and renewables by 66%
in FY '92. We launched more than a dozen international
partnerships to spur clean technology development and exports.
And we proposed comprehensive national energy legislation --
legislation I invite our new president to use as his guide.
\
In terms of federal leadership, we've tripled funding for
federal facility cleanups \ secured over a hundred enforceable
cleanup agreements for federal facilities \ and signed executive
orders spurring the federal government to take the lead in
increasing energy efficiency, recycling, and waste reduction.
And finally, we've insisted that a new world order include a
cleaner world environment. We reached over twenty new
international environmental agreements. \ We made America first
in the world to accelerate the phaseout of CFCs. \ We weaved
environmental cooperation into trade negotiations with our
neighbors; expanded debt-for-nature swaps with Latin America; and
proposed, signed, and submitted to Congress a comprehensive,
action-oriented global climate treaty.
This awards program itself was established to honor those
who've honored the environment. Some here have forged innovative
partnerships -- environmental alliances that are protecting our
wetlands, preserving our resources, and preparing a new
generation of environmental leadership.
4
Others here have taken the lead in combining sound business
with a safer environment -- a smart, new merger between
profitability and preservation. 11
Still others are pioneers on the frontier of environmental
technology: finding ways to remove CFC production from
manufacturing; or reduce pollution while recycling metal scrap.
Finally we've got recipients here who are cultivating our
human resources to conserve our natural ones. Leaders, like
Hazel Johnson, who realize that the greening of America is a
truly a grassroots operation. Or the Environmental Education
Program, teaching our children how to care for the great land
they will inherit.
I remember back in July I was out west visiting Sequoia
National Park. There was a camp there for inner-city youngsters,
Pyles Boys Camp I think it was called. I remember quoting Teddy
Roosevelt talking about the "beautiful gifts" we receive from
nature -- gifts we "ought to hand on as a precious heritage to
[our] children and [our] children's children."
That heritage is the family legacy that all Americans share,
and share responsibility for. Each of you understands President
Roosevelt's challenge. Each of you has acted on it. For that
you have my admiration, my respect, and my gratitude. Now, Mike,
if you'd hand out those awards.
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS
THE EAST ROOM
DECEMBER 2, 1992
Welcome everyone to the White House. [Acknowledgments]. And
a special welcome to the nine awards winners and thirteen
citation recipients, congratulations.
[[One of our recipients here today is called "Keep Texas
Beautiful." I want them to know that we'll soon be making a
contribution to the state's wildlife preserves Now where's
Millie? I guess I frightened her off. ]]
I'm not going to make a long-winded speech today. \ Irtake
the Clean Air Act very seriously. 11 But I've had a lot of time
to think, over the past two weeks, and I'd like to share some of
my reflections.
It's a strange time now: a twilight between the dusk of one
administration and the dawn of another. Over the next few years
I reckon I'll be spending a lot of time under what Teddy
Roosevelt called "the great cathedral of the outdoors;" and I'll
remember what we've done to conserve it, and preserve it
and
I'll be proud.
The environmental presidency was born out of the concerns of
a President, an outdoorsman, and a grandfather. Our approach
relied on sound policies over soundbites. We resisted the "green
fringe" of environmental extremism: holding fast to the principle
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003
2
that only a growing economy can provide the resources needed to
protect the environment.
We combined a pragmatism about human nature with an idealism
about Mother Nature: an ambitious agenda that sought to harness
the energy of capitalism in the service of conservation.
Here are the accomplishments I am proud to pass on to a new
generation: The Clean Air Act -- we broke ten years of
congressional gridlock by proposing and signing the world's most
protective and cost-effective clean air legislation. We won
major funding shifts to environmental programs -- increasing the
EPA's budget by almost a half, and increasing funding for clean
energy R&D by 66%.
On the law enforcement fronts we broke new ground and old
AND
records: filing more cases 6 collecting more penalties, and
putting more polluters behind bars than in all of EPA's 18 year
ABOUT
history.
PRISONT
AS THE PRIMARY MEANS o AARIESTING TIMBER
We helped make America's Great Outdoors even greater:
securing over $750 million to expand parks, wildlife refuges,
CORTAINED
campgrounds, and scenic rivers.
We ended the standard practice
of clear-cutting on federal land/ And to make sure no one would
miss the forest for the trees, we planted over two million new
trees all across this great land.
We ensured that America's seas would still be "shining":
ending ocean dumping of sewage sludge \ signing a tough oil
pollution bill \ and imposing a 10-year moratorium on oil and gas
leasing. Along THE ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITILE AREAS G are COASTS.
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3
We've made real progress in conserving energy -- by
redefining how we use it, and re-refining what we use. We
increased funding for energy conservation and renewables by 66%
in FY '92. We launched more than a dozen international
partnerships to spur clean technology development and exports.
And we proposed comprehensive national energy legislation --
legislation I invite our new president to use as his guide.
-
In terms of federal leadership, we've tripled funding for
federal facility cleanups \ secured over a hundred enforceable
cleanup agreements for federal facilities \ and signed executive
orders spurring the federal government to take the lead in
increasing energy efficiency, recycling, and waste reduction.
And finally, we've insisted that a new world order include a
cleaner world environment. We reached over twenty new
international environmental agreements. \ We made America first
in the world to accelerate the phaseout of CFCs. \ We weaved
environmental cooperation into trade negotiations with our
neighbors; expanded debt-for-nature swaps with Latin America; and
proposed, signed, and submitted to Congress a comprehensive,
action-criented global climate treaty.
This awards program itself was established to honor those
who've honored the environment. Some here have forged innovative
partnerships -- environmental alliances that are protecting our
wetlands, preserving our resources, and preparing a new
generation of environmental leadership.
11/30/92
13:44
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005
4
Others here have taken the lead in combining sound business
with a safer environment -- a smart, new merger between
profitability and preservation. 11
still others are pioneers on the frontier of environmental
technology: finding ways to remove CFC production from
manufacturing; or reduce pollution while recycling metal scrap.
Finally we've got recipients here who are cultivating our
human resources to conserve our natural ones. Leaders, like
Hazel Johnson, who realize that the greening of America is a
truly a grassroots operation. or the Environmental Education
Program, teaching our children how to care for the great land
they will inherit.
I remember back in July I was out west visiting Sequoia
National Park. There was a camp there for inner-city youngsters,
Pyles Boys Camp I think it was called. I remember quoting Teddy
Roosevelt talking about the "beautiful gifts" we receive from
nature -- gifts we "ought to hand on as a precious heritage to
[our] children and [our] children's children."
That heritage is the family legacy that all Americans share,
and share responsibility for. Each of you understands President
Roosevelt's challenge. Each of you has acted on it. For that
you have my admiration, my respect, and my gratitude. Now, Mike,
if you'd hand out those awards.
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT
The Bush Administration has implemented a wide-ranging, innovative agenda to
strengthen environmental protection both domestically and internationally:
Budgets: Within the context of attempts to restrain overall federal spending, proposed
and won major funding shifts to environmental programs, including increases of 47
percent for EPA operating budget and 66 percent for clean energy R&D
Enforcement: Made law enforcement history -- filing more cases, collecting more
penalties, and putting more polluters behind bars than during EPA's previous 18-year
history combined
Clean air: Broke a 10-year Congressional gridlock by proposing, signing, and
implementing the world's most protective, innovative, and cost-effective clean air
legislation
Parks and recreation: Secured over $750 million to expand parks, wildlife refuges,
campgrounds, trails, and wild and scenic rivers -- and requested an addition of $300
million for FY 1993
Reopened or upgraded dozens of recreational areas
20 new national park units, 57 new wildlife refuges
Sport fishing investments up 47 percent
Forests and Agriculture:
Ended clear-cutting as a standard practice on federal land
Planted 225 million trees under new initiative to assist voluntary planting by
communities and individuals
Approved new Farm Bill programs to reduce wetlands loss and water pollution
Called on other nations to join U.S. in reducing farm subsidies, which harm
competitive exports and contribute to environmental degradation
Coasts and Oceans:
Ended ocean dumping of sewage sludge
Signed a tough, effective oil pollution bill
Imposed 10-year moratorium on oil and gas leasing off the West Coast, and the
south Florida and New England coasts
To clean up Boston Harbor and similar problems, increased clean water grants
for Baltimore, Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, Seattle
Pioneered comprehensive ecosystem protection for Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay,
Gulf of Mexico, Puget Sound and other priority ecosystems
-- continued --
Clean technologies and energy:
Increased funding by 66 percent for energy conservation and renewables to $540
million in FY 1992, including CNG- and electric-powered vehicles and clean coal
technologies
Proposed national energy legislation that would sharply improve energy efficiency
in all sectors
Launched U.S.-Asia Environmental Partnership and more than a dozen additional
programs to spur clean technology development and exports
Enlisted more than 400 companies in an immediate voluntary campaign to
increase energy efficiency; enlisted over 800 companies in a program to cut toxic
emissions by over 340 million pounds by 1995
Federal leadership:
Tripled funding for federal facility cleanups, especially nuclear weapons
manufacturing sites
Secured 103 enforceable cleanup agreements for federal facilities; only 2 existed
when President Bush took office
Signed executive orders spurring the federal government to increase energy
efficiency, recycling, and waste reduction
International leadership:
Reached over 20 new international environmental agreements
First in the world to accelerate the phaseout of CFCs to the end of 1995 (CFCs
harm the ozone layer)
Made environmental cooperation a centerpiece of improved relations with
Mexico, in parallel with NAFTA negotiations
Proposed a worldwide forest protection treaty and a doubling of international aid
for forest conservation as a step toward halting the loss of the world's forests in a
decade
Expanded debt-for-nature swaps with Latin American nations
Proposed, signed, and submitted to Congress a comprehensive, action-oriented
global climate treaty, and began implementing measures that will reduce U.S.
greenhouse gas emissions by 7-11 percent below projected year 2000 levels
Committed to continue leading the world in protecting biodiversity, but refused to
sign a treaty with flawed provisions on intellectual property rights and financing
Led the way to global bans on driftnet fishing and trade in African elephant ivory
-- continued --
ITEMS NOT MATCHED BY CONGRESS
Congress has cut, delayed, or rejected many of President Bush's significant
environmental proposals.
Bush Proposal
Congressional Response
Every budget submitted by President
Cut the President's request by $467
Bush has requested an increase for
million over the last three years.
Superfund toxic waste cleanups to over
Congress has never matched the
$1.7 billion, 23 percent above the FY
President's original proposal (FY 1990)
1989 level
of $1.74 billion.
Increase funds for "America the
Congress cut the President's FY 1992
Beautiful," a wide-ranging program to
request by more than 25 percent and
expand and improve national parks,
threatens to cut $250 million from the
wildlife preserves and recreation areas
1993 request -- including deep cuts in
by 19 percent above 1992 levels (over
outdoor recreation, reforestation, and
100 percent above 1989 levels).
federal land acquisition
Elevate Environmental Protection
Congress has yet to pass the bill; this
Agency (EPA) to Cabinet status
year, the House committee did not even
(proposed in January 1990).
schedule hearings on a bipartisan bill
passed by the Senate and supported by
major environmental groups
Provide full funding (totaling $285
Zero funding for FY 1993. For FY
million in FY 1992 and 1993) for new
1992, Congress cut the President's
1990 Farm Bill voluntary program to
request by more than half, providing
preserve one million acres of wetlands
only $46 million.
-- the "Wetlands Reserve"
Sustained increases for overall wetlands
For FY 1993, Congress threatens to cut
protection: for 1993, a 35 percent
these programs below the 1992 level
increase over 1992 levels to $812 million
(170 percent over 1989 levels)
Provide $241 million in
Congress threatens to cut the FY 1993
FY 1993 (70 percent higher than the
request by over $100 million.
1992 level) for environmental activities
along the Mexican border
Source: Council on Environmental Quality, September 11, 1992
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS
THE EAST ROOM
DECEMBER 2, 1992
Welcome everyone to the White House. [Acknowledgments]. And
a special welcome to the nine awards winners and thirteen
citation recipients, congratulations.
[[one of our recipients here today is called "Keep Texas
Beautiful." I want them to know that we'll soon be making a
contribution to the state's wildlife preserves
Now where's
Millie? I guess I frightened her off. ]]
I'm not going to make a long-winded speech today. \ Irtake
the Clean Air Act very seriously. 11 But I've had a lot of time
to think, over the past two weeks, and I'd like to share some of
my reflections.
It's a strange time now: a twilight between the dusk of one
administration and the dawn of another. Over the next few years
I reckon I'll be spending a lot of time under what Teddy
Roosevelt called "the great cathedral of the outdoors;" and I'll
remember what we've done to conserve it, and preserve it
and
I'll be proud.
The environmental presidency was born out of the concerns of
a President, an outdoorsman, and a grandfather. Our approach
relied on sound policies over soundbites. We resisted the "green
fringe" of environmental extremism: holding fast to the principle
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that only a growing economy can provide the resources needed to
protect the environment.
We combined a pragmatism about human nature with an idealism
...
about Mother Nature: an ambitious agenda that sought to harness
the energy of capitalism in the service of conservation.
your
Here are the accomplishments I am proud to pass on to a new
generation: The Clean Air Act -- we broke ten years of
congressional gridlock by proposing and signing the world's most
protective and cost-effective clean air legislation. \ We won
major funding shifts to environmental programs -- increasing the
EPA's budget by almost a half, and increasing funding for clean
energy R&D by 66%.
On the law enforcement fronts we broke new ground and old
records: filing more cases, collecting more penalties, and
putting more polluters behind bars than in all of EPA's 18 year
history.
We helped make America's Great Outdoors even greater:
securing over $750 million to expand parks, wildlife refuges,
campgrounds, and scenic rivers. \ We ended the standard practice
of clear-cutting on federal land. And to make sure no one would
miss the forest for the trees, we planted over two million new
trees all across this great land. \
We ensured that America's seas would still be "shining":
ending ocean dumping of sewage sludge \ signing a tough oil
pollution bill \ and imposing a 10-year moratorium on oil and gas
leasing.
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We've made real progress in conserving energy -- by
redefining how we use it, and re-refining what we use. We
increased funding for energy conservation and renewables by 66%
in FY '92. We launched more than a dozen international
partnerships to spur clean technology development and exports.
And we proposed comprehensive national energy legislation --
legislation I invite our new president to use as his guide.
-
In terms of federal leadership, we've tripled funding for
federal facility cleanups \ secured over a hundred enforceable
cleanup agreements for federal facilities \ and signed executive
orders spurring the federal government to take the lead in
increasing energy efficiency, recycling, and waste reduction.
And finally, we've insisted that a new world order include a
cleaner world environment. We reached over twenty new
international environmental agreements.
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others here have taken the lead in combining sound business
with a safer environment -- a smart, new merger between
profitability and preservation.
still others are pioneers on the frontier of environmental
technology: finding ways to remove CFC production from
manufacturing; or reduce pollution while recycling metal scrap.
Finally we've got recipients here who are cultivating our
human resources to conserve our natural ones. Leaders, like
Hazel Johnson, who realize that the greening of America is a
truly a grassroots operation. or the Environmental Education
Program, teaching our children how to care for the great land
they will inherit. 11
I remember back in July I was out west visiting Sequoia
National Park. There was a camp there for inner-city youngsters,
Pyles Boys camp I think it was called. I remember quoting Teddy
Roosevelt talking about the "beautiful gifts" we receive from
nature -- gifts we "ought to hand on as a precious heritage to
[our] children and [our] children's children."
That heritage is the family legacy that all Americans share,
and share responsibility for. Each of you understands President
Roosevelt's challenge. Each of you has acted on it. For that
you have my admiration, my respect, and my gratitude. Now, Mike,
if you'd hand out those awards.
(Grossman)
November 23, 1992
Draft One
ENVIRO
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS
THE EAST ROOM
DECEMBER 2, 1992
Welcome everyone to the White House. [Acknowledgments]. And
a special welcome to the nine medal and thirteen citation
recipients, congratulations.
[[One of our recipients here today is called "Keep Texas
Beautiful. " I want them to know that we'll soon be making
a
?
contribution to the state's wildlife preserves
Now where's
Millie? I guess I frightened her off. ]]
I'm not going to make a long-winded speech today. \ I take
the Clean Air Act very seriously. But I've done a lot of
thinking over the past two weeks, and I'd like to share some of
my reflections.
Over the next few years I reckon I'll be spending a lot of
time in what Teddy Roosevelt called "the great cathedral of the
outdoors;" and I'll remember what we've done to conserve it, and
preserve it
and I'll be proud.
The environmental presidency was born out of the concerns of
a President, an outdoorsman, and a grandfather. Our approach
relied on sound policies over soundbites. We moved from the old,
outdated ideas of "command and control" conservation -- to a more
market-oriented, decentralized philosophy of environmental
action. Those who forced a false choice between a strong economy
2
and a safer environment just plain missed the point: we sought
to achieve both -- while sacrificing neither.
u understanding of
We combined a pragmatism about human nature with an idealism
about Mother Nature: an ambitious agenda that sought to harness
the environment.
the energy of capitalism in the service of conservation
Here are the accomplishments I am proud to pass on to a new
generation: The Clean Air Act -- we broke ten years of
congressional gridlock by pushing through the world's most
protective and cost-effective clean air legislation. We
won
major funding shifts to environmental programs -- increasing the
EPA's budget by almost 50 percent, and increasing funding for
clean energy research and development by 66 percent.
On the law enforcement front we broke new ground and old
records: filing more cases, collecting more penalties, and
putting more polluters behind bars than every previous
administration in history combined.
We helped make America's Great Outdoors even greater:
securing over a billion dollars to expand parks, wetlands,
wildlife refuges, campgrounds, and scenic rivers. We decided
to end clear-cutting as a standard practice on federal land. And
our America the Beautiful initiative has planted more than two
million new trees all across this great land.
We ensured that America's seas would still be "shining":
ending ocean dumping of sewage sludge \ proposing and signing a
tough oil pollution bill \ and imposing a 10-year moratorium on
3
oil and gas leasing over vast areas of our ecologically-sensitive
coasts.
We've launched a new generation of clean energy
technologies, not only by increasing funding for research and
development, but also by creating incentives for their use.
WE
We
Launched more than a dozen international partnerships to spur
clean technology development and exports. And we pushed through
comprehensive national energy legislation that will guide our
country into the next century.
In terms of federal leadership, we've tripled funding for
federal facility cleanups \ secured over a hundred enforceable
cleanup agreements for federal facilities \ and signed executive
orders spurring the federal government to take the lead in
increasing energy efficiency, recycling, and waste reduction.
And finally, we've insisted that a new world order include a
cleaner world environment. We reached over twenty new
international environmental agreements. We made America the
world leader in the phaseout of CFCs.
\
We built environmental
cooperation into trade negotiations with Mexico; expanded debt-
for-nature swaps with Latin America; created networks for
cooperation with Eastern Europe and Asia; and our comprehensive,
action-oriented approach to global climate change was ratified by
the Senate and adopted by the world community.
At the same time that we renewed our national commitment to
the environment, we redoubled our efforts to support and
4
encourage people like you. Everyone in this room today has
demonstrated the principles of a new environmentalism.
I established this national environmental awards program to
honor those who've honored the environment. Some here have
forged innovative partnerships -- environmental alliances that
are protecting our wetlands, preserving our resources, and
preparing a new generation of environmental leadership.
Others here have taken the lead in combining sound business
with a safer environment -- a smart, new merger between
profitability and preservation.
Still others are pioneers on the frontier of environmental
technology: finding ways to remove CFC production from
manufacturing; or reduce pollution while recycling metal scrap.
Finally we've got recipients here who are cultivating our
human resources to conserve our natural ones. Leaders, like
Hazel Johnson, who realize that the greening of America is a
truly a grassroots operation. or the Environmental Education
Program, teaching our children how to care for the great land
they will inherit.
I remember back in July I was out west visiting Sequoia
National Park. There was a camp there for inner-city youngsters,
Pyles Boys Camp I think it was called. I remember quoting Teddy
Roosevelt talking about the "beautiful gifts" we receive from
nature -- gifts we "ought to hand on as a precious heritage to
[our] children and [our] children's children."
5
That heritage is the family legacy that all Americans share,
and share responsibility for. Each of you understands President
Roosevelt's challenge. Each of you has acted on it. For that
you have my admiration, my respect, and my gratitude. Now, Mike,
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Document No. 364554
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 11/25/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: Noon 11/30/92
IDENTIAL REMARKS: ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS
THE EAST ROOM
SUBJEC™
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1992
11/30/92
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Last awards' line: NOT "those
awards" MAYBE "the
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attached directly to
1 a copy to this office
0, 1992. Thank you.
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Grossman)
November 23, 1992
Draft One
ENVIRO
25 All : 27
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS
THE EAST ROOM
DECEMBER 2, 1992
Welcome everyone to the White House. [Acknowledgments]. And
a special welcome to the nine awards winners and thirteen
citation recipients, congratulations.
[[One of our recipients here today is called "Keep Texas
Beautiful." I want them to know that we'll soon be making a
contribution to the state's wildlife preserves
Now where's
Millie? I guess I frightened her off. ]]
I'm not going to make a long-winded speech today. \ I take
the Clean Air Act very seriously. 11 But I've had a lot of time
to think, over the past two weeks, and I'd like to share some of
my reflections.
It's a strange time now: a twilight between the dusk of one
administration and the dawn of another. Over the next few years
I reckon I'll be spending a lot of time under what Teddy
Roosevelt called "the great cathedral of the outdoors;" and I'll
remember what we've done to conserve it, and preserve it
and
I'll be proud.
The environmental presidency was born out of the concerns of
a President, an outdoorsman, and a grandfather. Our approach
relied on sound policies over soundbites. We resisted the "green
fringe" of environmental extremism: holding fast to the principle
2
that only a growing economy can provide the resources needed to
protect the environment.
We combined a pragmatism about human nature with an idealism
about Mother Nature: an ambitious agenda that sought to harness
the energy of capitalism in the service of conservation.
Here are the accomplishments I am proud to pass on to a new
generation: The Clean Air Act -- we broke ten years of
congressional gridlock by proposing and signing the world's most
protective and cost-effective clean air legislation. We won
major funding shifts to environmental programs -- increasing the
EPA's budget by almost a half, and increasing funding for clean
energy R&D by 66%.
On the law enforcement fronts we broke new ground and old
records: filing more cases, collecting more penalties, and
putting more polluters behind bars than in all of EPA's 18 year
history.
We helped make America's Great Outdoors even greater:
securing over $750 million to expand parks, wildlife refuges,
campgrounds, and scenic rivers. \ We ended the standard practice
of clear-cutting on federal land. And to make sure no one would
miss the forest for the trees, we planted over two million new
trees all across this great land.
We ensured that America's seas would still be "shining":
ending ocean dumping of sewage sludge \ signing a tough oil
pollution bill \ and imposing a 10-year moratorium on oil and gas
leasing.
3
We've made real progress in conserving energy -- by
redefining how we use it, and re-refining what we use. We
increased funding for energy conservation and renewables by 66%
in FY '92. We launched more than a dozen international
partnerships to spur clean technology development and exports.
And we proposed comprehensive national energy legislation --
legislation I invite our new president to use as his guide.
\
In terms of federal leadership, we've tripled funding for
federal facility cleanups \ secured over a hundred enforceable
cleanup agreements for federal facilities \ and signed executive
orders spurring the federal government to take the lead in
increasing energy efficiency, recycling, and waste reduction.
And finally, we've insisted that a new world order include a
cleaner world environment. We reached over twenty new
international environmental agreements. We made America first
in the world to accelerate the phaseout of CFCs. \ We weaved
environmental cooperation into trade negotiations with our
neighbors; expanded debt-for-nature swaps with Latin America; and
proposed, signed, and submitted to Congress a comprehensive,
action-oriented global climate treaty.
This awards program itself was established to honor those
who've honored the environment. Some here have forged innovative
partnerships -- environmental alliances that are protecting our
wetlands, preserving our resources, and preparing a new
generation of environmental leadership.
4
Others here have taken the lead in combining sound business
with a safer environment -- a smart, new merger between
profitability and preservation. 11
Still others are pioneers on the frontier of environmental
technology: finding ways to remove CFC production from
manufacturing; or reduce pollution while recycling metal scrap.
Finally we've got recipients here who are cultivating our
human resources to conserve our natural ones. Leaders, like
Hazel Johnson, who realize that the greening of America is a
truly a grassroots operation. Or the Environmental Education
Program, teaching our children how to care for the great land
they will inherit.
I remember back in July I was out west visiting Sequoia
National Park. There was a camp there for inner-city youngsters,
Pyles Boys Camp I think it was called. I remember quoting Teddy
Roosevelt talking about the "beautiful gifts" we receive from
nature -- gifts we "ought to hand on as a precious heritage to
[our] children and [our] children's children."
That heritage is the family legacy that all Americans share,
and share responsibility for. Each of you understands President
Roosevelt's challenge. Each of you has acted on it. For that
you have my admiration, my respect, and my gratitude. Now, Mike,
if you'd hand out those awards.
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(Grossman)
November 23, 1992
Draft One
DALE CURTIS, CEQ
ENVIRO
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS
THE EAST ROOM
DECEMBER 2, 1992
Welcome everyone to the White House. [Acknowledgments]. And
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citation recipients, congratulations.
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joke.
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I'm not going to make a long-winded speech today. \ I take
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It's a strange time now: a twilight between the dusk of -one
administration and the dawn of another
Over the next few years
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I recken I'll be spending a lot of time under what Teddy
Roosevelt called "the great cathedral of the outdoors;" and I'll
remember what we've done to conserve it, and preserve it
and
I'll be proud.
The environmental presidency was born out of the concerns of
a President, an outdoorsman, and a grandfather. Our approach
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relied on sound policies over soundbites.
We resisted the 'green-
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2
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the energy of capitalism in the service of conservation.
VEITHER.
Here are the accomplishments I hope to pass on to a new
generation: The Clean Air Act -- we broke ten years of
congressional gridlock by proposing and signing the world's most
protective and cost-effective clean air legislation.
We
won
major funding shifts to environmental programs -- increasing the
EPA's budget by almost a half, and increasing funding for clean
energy R&D by 66%.
On the law enforcement front we broke new ground and old
records: filing more cases, collecting more penalties, and
putting more polluters behind bars than in all of EPA's 18 year
history.
We helped make America's Great Outdoors even greater:
securing over $750 million to expand parks, refuges, campgrounds,
and scenic rivers. Planting two and a quarter million new
trees -- and ending clear-cutting on federal land.
We ensured that America's seas would still be "shining":
ending ocean dumping of sewage sludge signing a tough oil
pollution bill and imposing a 10-year moratorium on oil and gas
leasing.
We've made real progress in conserving energy -- by
redefining how we use it, and re-refining what we use. We
3
increased funding for energy conservation and renewables by 66%
in FY '92. We proposed national energy legislation. And we
launched more than a dozen international partnerships to spur
clean technology development and exports.
In terms of federal leadership, we've tripled funding for
federal facility cleanups \ secured over a hundred enforceable
cleanup agreements for federal facilities and signed executive
orders spurring the federal government to increase energy
efficiency, recycling, and waste reduction.
And finally, we've insisted that a new world order include a
cleaner world environment. We reached over twenty new
international environmental agreements. We made America first
in the world to accelerate the phaseout of CFCs. We weaved
environmental cooperation into trade negotiations with our
neighbors; expanded debt-for-nature swaps with Latin America; and
proposed, signed, and submitted to Congress a comprehensive,
action-oriented global climate treaty.
This awards program itself was established to honor those
who've honored the environment. Some here have forged innovative
partnerships -- environmental alliances that are protecting our
wetlands, preserving our resources, and preparing a new
generation of environmental leadership.
Others here have taken the lead in combining sound business
with a safer environment -- a smart, new merger between
profitability and preservation.
4
Still others are pioneers on the frontier of environmental
technology: finding ways to remove CFC production from
manufacturing; or reduce pollution while recycling metal scrap.
Finally we've got recipients here who are cultivating our
human resources to conserve our natural ones. Leaders, like
Hazel Johnson, who realize that the greening of America is a
truly a grassroots operation. Or the Environmental Education
Program, teaching our children how to care for the great land
they will inherit.
I remember back in July I was out west visiting Sequoia
National Park. There was a camp there for inner-city youngsters,
Pyles Boys Camp I think it was called. I remember quoting Teddy
Roosevelt talking about the "beautiful gifts" we receive from
nature -- gifts we "ought to hand on as a precious heritage to
[our] children and [our] children's children."
That heritage is the family legacy that all Americans share,
and share responsibility for. Each of you understands President
Roosevelt's challenge. Each of you has acted on it. For that
you have my admiration, my respect, and my gratitude. Now, Mike,
if you'd hand out those awards.
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