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NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
FAX TRANSMITTAL SHEET
TELECOPY NUMBER (202) 797-5646
Date:
12-19-89
Time: 12:15
Addressee: Carolyn Cawley
From: Ann Krumboltz
Dept: White House Speech Writing Dept: Earth Day Programs
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Telephone: 202/797-6858
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Information on Earth Day Programs
IF PROBLEMS OCCUR WITH THIS TRANSMISSION, PLEASE NOTIFY NWF AT
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In Brief:
EARTH DAY
The issue:
The first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, was the largest organized environmental
demonstration in history. An estimated 20 million people took part in the activities, which gave
birth to the modern American environmental movement.
The first Earth Day took place almost exclusively in the United States and involved
10,000 schools, 2,000 colleges and universities and virtually every community in America.
Activities ranged from nature walks to "sit-ins." The mayor of New York turned Fifth Avenue
into the world's largest pedestrian mall, and 100,000 people attended an eco-fair in Union
Square.
In the wake of Earth Day 1970 came an outpouring of public concern so strong that
President Nixon proposed legislation to establish the Environmental Protection Agency. The
newly born environmental movement grounded the supersonic transport plane and prompted
passage of a Clear Air Act, Clean Water Act and Environment Education Act.
The changes made were not just confined to government. Tens of millions of people
began changing their lifestyles--growing or buying organic produce, recycling aluminum and
glass, insulating their houses, and driving smaller cars.
Cardyn may This
NWF's position:
Theme
Now, observing April 22, 1990--the 20th anniversary of the original Earth Day--as a
it
rallying point, NWF is working with other environmental and conservation groups to convince
you
the people of the world that our environmental problems are critical.
want
NWF's program uses the theme EARTH DAY EVERY DAY (TM). The program hopes
to carry the message that with global participation we can, by the year 2000, avert
environmental catastrophe and move towards a sustainable global society. The program
includes:
*launching a college campus program called COOL IT/ that challenges students to
organize global warming projects;
*producing free resources for the public that review steps every citizen can take to make
a difference;
*providing organizing and issue expertise through speaker's bureaus, outreach and
articles in National Wildlife and International Wildlife; and,
*reaching grade schoolers and junior high schoolers with special Earth Day issues of
Ranger Rick and The Wildlife Week theme packet "Earth Day Every Day: You Can Make
A Difference!"
The 1990's should become the Decade of the Environment and revive a commitment
to protect the planet by every citizen throughout the world.
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION 1400 Sixteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036-2266
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NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
EDITORIAL VIEWPOINT
PUBLIC AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT, 1400 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-2266 (202) 797-6850
Make Earth Day Count
By Jay D. Hair
President, National Wildlife Federation
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "You can make a difference." It's a phrase
used to encourage activism about everything from beautifying a
neighborhood to stopping global nuclear proliferation. The phrase
is so frequently invoked that we dismiss its validity. Don't.
Individual lifestyles do have environmental consequences.
When Americans apply conservation ideals to their personal actions,
some of the nation's environmental problems -- even problems like
global warming -- can be reduced.
Consider a few everyday examples. Taking a cup of coffee
along the way to your morning appointment? Stopping for lunch at
the nearest fast-food stop? Having a few people over and plan on
using throwaway plates? In every instance, you have a choice:
you could use products that are made of rigid foam plastic or you
could use a substitute. Make the latter choice and you've also
made an environmentally responsible decision.
About one half of all rigid foam is inflated with
chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which destroy the Earth's protective
ozone layer and add to the problem of global warming. But you
don't have to drink from a plastic cup. Paper cups do just fine;
washable cups are even better for the environment. And fast-food
shops can readily get plastic packaging without the harmful CFCs.
Ask for it.
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Next, travel to the self-service gas station. By squeezing
that last nickel's worth of gasoline into the tank -- only to watch
it dribble down the side of your car -- you are harming the
environment.
"Topping off" releases hydrocarbons that react with sunlight
and other atmospheric gases to create ozone, a gas that causes $3
to $4 billion a year in crop damage and is another of the
"greenhouse" gases that adds to the global warming trend.
Finally, take an environmental tour on trash pick-up day.
Americans throw out 150 million tons of garbage a year. Reusable
glass containers, recyclable paper and plastic and valuable metals
make up most of the load.
The volume has overtaken our ability to deal with it. In just
three years, more than half the cities in the United States are
expected to exhaust their garbage landfills. By next year, cities
and towns in California are expected to pay $1 billion annually to
get rid of their trash. In Minneapolis, the cost of burying a ton
of refuse has increased sixfold in just six years.
Yet, half of the aluminum, paper and glass that ends up in
landfills could be recycled, saving the cost of disposal as well
as the energy used to manufacture new products. One California
study found that the net cost of a curbside recycling program is
a third less than the cost of "landfilling the throwaways.
At the same time, making paper from discards instead of trees
cuts energy consumption by 75 percent, and the use of fossil fuels
is the prime culprit in global warming. Producing aluminum cans
from scrap instead of bauxite cuts energy use and air pollution by
95 percent.
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Can you make a difference? The National Wildlife Federation
believes the answer is a resounding "yes." That's why we've
created a program -- "COOL IT!"-- especially for college students
and especially timed for Earth Day that will focus on the global
warming problem.
The idea of the original Earth Day was born on a college
campus. In 1970, during the first Earth Day, more than 2,000
colleges and universities held special programs. In many ways, the
modern environmental movement began on America's campuses.
Now, we need more than talk; we need effective, immediate
attention. The world today is faced with vexing -- but not
insurmountable -- environmental problems. The enthusiasm and
determination that make Earth Day 1970 the largest demonstration
of public will in American history can also help solve the
environmental problems of the 1990s.
So join us in a "COOL IT!" project and act out our slogan -- "Earth
Day, Every Day." Because you can make a difference.
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NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION'S
EARTH DAY PROJECTS
The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) will be using the "Earth
Day" focus in new and ongoing programs, projects and
publications. The major components of "Earth Day Programs" are
listed below:
Theme: Earth Day Every Day (TM) is a theme to promote
the concept that individual action makes a difference.
It promotes the idea that choices are made on a daily
basis which impact on global environmental problems. The
theme will run through many of our educational outreach
programs and will be promoted through our ongoing work
with TV, radio and print media.
COOL ITI (TM): NWF's college campus program challenges
student groups and faculty members to develop projects
which identify local solutions to global warming.
Projects could include launching a campus-wide
recycling program or re-lighting a university with
energy efficient light bulbs. Students will submit
their project to NWF for certification as an official
COOL IT! project. The five top projects will receive
$2,500 towards the continuation of the programs they
developed. NWF will provide COOL IT! merchandise to
certified projects wholesale so students can fund raise
for their projects. The projects must be sustainable
to benefit the university community in years to come.
Earth Day Every Day Packet: Available to the public
in November 1989, this information packet will include
a letter on the history and importance of Earth Day.
It will include a piece describing solutions to
environmental problems that individuals can take (to be
tacked up on refrigerators with an Earth Day Every Day
magnet which will also be enclosed).
Earth Day Every Day Citizen Action Guide: This sixteen
page booklet will expand on the refrigerator piece
(mentioned above) with more details on what steps
citizens can implement in their community to remedy
environmental problems. It will be available to the
general public in December 1989.
NWF Wildlife Week: April 22-28, 1990
Using the theme: "Earth Day Every Day: You Can Make A
Difference," this annual week of education was moved to
coincide with Earth Day and is designed for an audience
of 650,000 primary school classrooms. Educational
materials on the environment and environmental concerns
designed for classroom projects, this year using the
Earth Day theme.
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Ranger Rick: This monthly NWF magazine has 886,000
subscribers. It will announce Wildlife Week's Earth
Day theme in the January 1990 edition. The April issue
will carry a special Earth Day section including an
Earth Day poster for children.
you Can Do It: This is a booklet from Ranger Rick, now
available for children who write requesting information
on how they can help save the environment.
National Wildlife: Our bi-monthly magazine will publish
a special issue featuring Earth Day in February 1990.
It will include articles on peoples's lifestyles and
their effect on the environment; the earth's changing
climate; wildlife habitat; and ozone depletion. The
magazine has 944,000 subscribers.
International Wildlife: This bi-monthly magazine will
feature an 18-page Earth Day "world environmental
quality index." (March/April 1990) It has 512,000
subscribers.
National Wildlife Merchandise Catalog: The catalog will
feature many Earth Day theme items, including the
Environmental Scientist Kit, T-shirts, cups, watches,
tote bags and calendars which all include an Earth Day
message.
NWF's Conservation Education Center: Our Virginia office
in Laurel Ridge is planning a 2nd Annual Conservation
Fair in the month of April 1990. The NWF Wildlife
Gallery of Art will feature an Earth Day theme exhibit,
April 1990.
NWF State Affiliates: State affiliates will be working
hard at the local and state level to promote Earth Day
with a variety of local events, projects and speakers.
NWF Working in Coalition/and Providing National Outreach:
We are coordinating all our Earth Day programs with the
Earth Day 1990 coalition which is made up of dozens of
national environmental and conservation organizations
and public figures. As part of a coalition we are
providing outreach and leadership on coalition
initiatives such as the Earth Day event on the Mall in
Washington, DC and general promotion of our resources
to allied groups and the general public. NWF president
and staff will be available for speaking opportunities
at conferences and especially college campus events.
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Earth Day Every Day
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ann Krumboltz (202) 797-5468
Nick Keller (202) 797-6858
EARTH DAY: LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In the lingo of the 1970's, April 22, 1970 -
Earth Day -- was a "happening." " On that single day, more than 20
million people in 10,000 schools, 2,000 colleges and universities
and in virtually every community in the United States did something
for the environment. In the process, the modern environmental
movement was born.
Earth Day events ran the gamut of the imagination. In New
York, Fifth Avenue was transformed into a pedestrian mall and
100,000 people attended an eco-fair in that city's Union Station.
In Chicago, 38 separate ecology fairs were held around the
metropolitan area. In Pittsfield, Mass., a bank which offered a
penny for each bottle and can collected more than 1 million
containers in one week. Even Congress formally adjourned for the
day to allow members to participate in events in their home town
districts.
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But more important than what happened on April 22, 1970 is
what has happened in the years since then.
In 1965, only 17 percent of a national opinion sampling put
air and water pollution among the nation's top problems. Yet, in
a Gallup poll just after that first Earth Day, 53 percent ranked
environmental cleanup as second in importance only to crime
prevention.
By 1985, Pollster Louis Harris found that 85 percent of a
national sampling favored strict enforcement of the Clean Air and
Clean Water Acts. From his polling, Harris concluded that
Americans' support for environmental protection paralleled "nothing
less than belief in free elections, in the right to free speech,
the right to worship and the right to private ownership of
property."
Before Earth Day, 1970, there were few effective federal or
state regulations protecting the environment. But just two months
after Earth Day, President Richard M. Nixon proposed legislation
establishing the Environmental Protection Agency. Later that year,
a tough Clean Air Act was passed, the Supersonic Transport was
grounded and new in-plant pollution laws were passed to protect
workers' health.
In more recent years, laws have been passed to protect and
enhance air quality, to clean up abandoned toxic waste sites, to
require environmental impact statements on a wide range of
activities and to protect the purity of drinking water, among other
issues.
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Earth Day, 1970 created intense awareness about environmental
problems and an acute urge to begin solving them. One writer
observed that Earth Day, 1970 made Americans realize that "the
only way people can escape facing up to environmental problems is
for the world to stop and let them off."
While Earth Day, 1970 marked the birth of the environmental
movement, the years since that "happening" have marked the maturing
of the movement. Today, environmental organizations boast more
members and supporters than ever before. The movement has grown
to include corporate executives and college students, farmers and
urbanites, political activists and everyday citizens. As a result,
environmental issues take center stage in political debates and
elections.
The environmental crisis facing the world in 1990 is more
complex and dangerous than ever before. Global issues, including
climate change, ozone depletion, acid rain, overpopulation,
deforestation and chemical pollution threaten the quality of life
on earth. As a result the NWF has declared Earth Day in 1990 as
the beginning of the Decade of the Environment, a ten year effort
to reverse current trends and move towards a sustainable world
society.
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A PROJECT OF
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Earth Day Every Day
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Ann Krumboltz (202) 797-5468
Nick Keller (202) 797-6858
NWF URGES COLLEGE CAMPUSES TO "COOL IT!"
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- National Wildlife Federation (NWF) is urging
college campuses to "COOL IT!" by fashioning projects in their
own communities that will help halt the global warming trend.
By Earth Day, April 22, 1990, the 20th anniversary of the
nation's largest citizens demonstration, student-initiated "COOL
IT!" projects will be well underway nationwide. The success of
these projects will lead the way for a major nationwide or even
worldwide celebration.
"The very words 'global warming' make us believe that it is
a global problem, not a local problem. That is precisely the
misconception the 'COOL IT!' program is designed to reverse,"
said NWF President Jay D. Hair. "All environmental problems are
really local problems. And when they are not solved at the local
level, the problems naturally evolve into global dilemmas.
"Furthermore, global problems can best be solved at the
local level. The "COOL IT!" program will show student and
community leaders that they can indeed make a difference and
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determine the quality of the world in which they live," Hair
concluded.
Under the program, a single "COOL IT!" project will be
recognized by NWF on each campus. The recognized project will
encourage involvement by all possible segments of the university
community in devising a sound, local approach to the problem of
global warming. The programs are expected to become sustainable
community projects rather than ending when today's college
leaders leave the campuses.
"The scope of acceptable projects is wide," according to Ann
Krumboltz, Director of Earth Day Programs. In some cases, the
local effort could be an extension of an existing program. For
example, some campus "COOL IT!" projects may expand existing
recycling programs to double or triple the amount of waste that
is reused rather than land-filled. Other campuses may try to
persuade food establishments to eliminate plastic packaging that
contribute to the problem of global warming.
"In all cases, the projects will produce measurable results,
not only heightening the public's environmental consciousness,
but making progress towards specific environmental goals," said
Krumboltz.
In addition, every college campaign will be encouraged to
use the "COOL IT!" slogan -- "Earth Day, Every Day." NWF will
provide direct support to campus organizations by assigning
regional staff to work with students in designing projects,
devising fundraising strategies and maintaining an information
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network with other students involved in "COOL IT!" programs.
The "COOL IT" campaign will culminate during Earth Day 1990
activities with a report on student achievements toward stemming
global warming and the announcement of special merit awards for
outstanding and creative projects. Special merit projects will
receive a $2,500 award to be used for environmental programming
at the college or in the community.
Environmental problems have become increasingly complex and
commonplace in the past decade: Americans face such thorny
issues as toxic contamination of neighborhoods, health-
threatening acid rain, and contaminated groundwater, among a host
of others. But no environmental problem may be as immediate --
or as reversible -- as the problem of global warming.
In recent years, scientists and natural resource experts
have presented data clearly indicating that man-made pollution is
radically changing the Earth's climate. By some estimates, even
a few degrees of warming in the next several decades could
transform some farming communities into dust bowls, put coastal
communities under water and speed the extinction of some wildlife
species.
"But global warming isn't inevitable," noted Hair. "People
created the problem and we can change much of the outcome. The
National Wildlife Federation picked the issue of global warming
for the 'COOL IT' program because we can still change the course
of our folly. And students on America's campuses can lead the
way."
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EDITOR'S BOX:
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
This is the FIRST ISSUE of
COOL in Connection Y's
the forum for sharing Infor-
olit! Connection
mation about exciting Earth
Day programs on college
campuses. Students should
send Isliers and Ideas. For
more information call us at
(202) 797-6858
The Student Newsletter for Environmental Projects
COOL IT! HITS THE CAMPUSESI
COOL ITI emphasizes supporting projects
Campus leaders across the country are join-
initiated by culturally diverse groups. COOL ITI organ-
Ing a campaign to "cool" global warming. Through
izer Yewande Dada is assisting college students from
"COOL IT!, sponsored by the National Wildlife Federa-
diverse communities who are not traditionally active in
tion (NWF), campus leaders can start to solve world-
environmental issues. "African Americans, Native
"African
wide pollution problems by working in their own com-
Americans, Hispanic and Asian American communi-
Americans,
munities.
ties are plagued by environmental hazards and prob-
Native
"The very words 'global warming' make us
lems. We need to play a more active role in solving
Americans,
believe that it is a global problem, not a local problem.
these problems," says Dada, a Spelman College gradu-
Hispanic and
That is the misconception COOL ITI is designed to
ate. "COOL ITI needs everyone's participation to be
effective."
reverse," says NWF President Jay D. Hair. "All envi-
Asian American
ronmental problems are really local problems. And
THE EARTH DAY CONNECTION
communities are
when they are not solved at the local level, the prob-
lems naturally avolve into global dilemmas."
Earth Day celebrations abound, ranging from
plagued by
By Earth Day, April 22, 1990, the 20th anni-
glitzy to humble. The founder of the original Earth Day,
environmental
versary of the nation's largest citizens' demonstration,
Denis Hayes, has launched a coalition effort called
"Earth Day 1990." NWF is part of this coalition, which
hazards and
NWF anticipates that student-initiated COOL ITI proj-
problems. We
ects will be well underway.
promotes local environmental education and action.
COOL ITI staff will coordinate program activities with
need to play a
What is COOL ITI?
Earth Day 1990's outreach efforts.
"Students are this country's most creative
The "COOL IT" campaign will culminate with
more active role
leaders," says Nick Keller, COOL ITI National Coordi-
a NWF report on student achievements toward ad-
in solving these
nator. NWF's program, he explains, encourages stu-
dressing global warming, to be released during Earth
problems, says
dents to launch local projects that attack the pollution
Day 1990 activities in April. NWF will recognize out-
Dada, a Spelman
causing global warming.
standing and creative projects with special merit awards
For example, some campus COOL IT! proj-
of $2,500, to be used for environmental programming
College graduate
ects may double or triple the size of existing recycling
at the college or in the community. Active COOL ITI
COOL IT! needs
programs. Other campuses may promote public trans-
participants also will have access to an environmental
resume bank.
everyone's
portation, energy efficiency, bike paths and walkways,
Look to future issues of COOL IT Connection
or try to persuade local food establishments to switch
participation to
from plastic packaging to biodegradable paper cups
for more project ideas, legislative progress on global
be effective.'
and plates.
warming and details on the resume bank.
"We want to structure local programs as
sustainable community projects," says Keller. "Ideally,
COOL ITI:will continue even after today's students
have graduated."
NWF offers students a jump-start on their
projects by providing organizing materials, fund raising
help, and networking resources to reach other cam-
puses that participate in COOL ITI
NWF has also hired five recent college grads
as regional resource staff. This summer, COOL ITI or-
ganizers geared up for action with a two-week training
session in Washington, D.C. "We're ready nowl says
Kristen Brown, a Stanford graduate and COOL ITI
Northeast organizer. "There are so many good project
to right: Nick Keller, Mark Williams (student, University of
ideas that I'm running to keep up."
Georgia, Athens) and Jerry McCollum (Executive Director
Georgia Wildlife Federation).
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COOL IT!
Projects Underway
NWF's COOL ITI project
The campuses are calling! COOL ITI's five regional organizers rolled up their sleeves
is well underway, with
sample: in early September as projects took off on campuses across the country. Here's a
our five COOL ITI re-
gional organizers trained
Roald Hazelhoff, an assistant professor of political science at Birmingham
Southern College (BSC) in Midfield, Alabama, calls his project BSC
and in the field. Here are
Conservancy. Roald explains that a pilot BSC campus recycling project
examples of the cross-
started In the fall of 1988 has grown steadily. By involving sororities and fraternities
section of innovative
through a competitive point accumulation system, BSC Conservancy plans to double
the campus' current aluminum intake. In addition to recycling, the BSC Conservancy
projects that have been
hopes to increase community awareness of global warming by coordinating activities
certified as official COOL
with Committee. groups such as Circle K, the Alabama Conservancy, and the BSC Energy
IT! projects.
Texas Environmental, Alliance of Merchants, or TEAM, is a COOL ITI project
organized at Texas A&M University. Michael Wovsham, Mary Turner
Albert, and Geoff Smith are A&M students affiliated with the Texas Environ-
mental Action Coalition. Through COOL ITI, TEAM aims to enlist at least a
dozen local businesses and merchants in recycling. Half the proceeds from recycling
efforts will support TEAM. The other half will pay for tree planting and educational
projects. Michael observes that TEAM already looks like an ongoing COOL ITI project.
At the University of Florida, Heather Weiner and Mike deGiovanni
launched a COOL ITI project that will expand the university's current
recycling program. Weiner and deGlovanni are affiliated with the campus'
"Environmental Action Group" (EAG), which has Initiated a campus-wide
inter-departmental paper recycling program in conjunction with the previously organ-
ized on-campus aluminum recycling effort. For organizing help, EAG approached The
WEED
Wildlife Society, the University of Florida student government, and the administration.
To encourage long-term commitment to recycling and conservation, EAG plans to
promote its concerns and accomplishments through school newpaper stories, and even
produce a film on recycling. Mike is working to connect the problem of global warming
with other concerns of culturally diverse groups on campus.
At Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) in Springfield,
Massachusetts, Michael Van Dyke is not just COOLing ITI. He's STCCing
ITI As Director of Student Activities, Michael sees a real need for recycling
on his campus. STCC ITI found that campus waste disposal costs are
expected to increase by 25-30 percent in 1989-'90. STCC ITI would initiate a campus-
wide paper recycling program and a year-long community educational campaign on
global warming issues. In its publicity campaign, the project plans to utilize a weekly
newsletter, the student newspaper and flyers. Michael's goal for the recycling project
is to save money for the college by keeping campus waste disposal costs at their current
level for the next few years.
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STATE
Global Warming
Issue Update
Viclous drought in the sum-
recommends banning ozone depleting chemi-
Believe it: Congress
mer of '88 and continuing
cals by 1995, and measures reducing defores-
weather changes have spurred White House and
tation and Increasing Investments in mass
will focus on the
congressional action. This fall, President Bush
transit.
politique while the
has arranged an environmental summit to dis-
Unfortunately, none of these meas-
cuss global warming with world leaders, while
urers will succeed without pressure from the
world fries unless you
Members of Congress develop bills to shape U.S.
grassroots (that's you). The hitch? Politics.
apply pressure. So get
policy.
Wirth's bill must first make its way
on the phone or the
Since last January, senators have Intro-
through the Senate Energy Committee, facing
terminal and raise.
duced five bills, led by Colorado Democrat Tim
tough opposition from conservative oll-state
Wirth's "National Energy Policy Act of 1989" (S.
their consciousness.
senators. Schnelder's bill suffers two down-
324). House members have introduced four bills.
falls. Her legislation may be too progressive for
Because many people
Rep. Claudine Schneider's (R-R.I.) "Global Warm-
many House members. She's also a Republi-
ing Prevention Act" (H.R. 1078) is the most
don't bother to let Con-
can in a Democratically
comprehensive. All measures attack the causes
controlled House, and
gress know how they
of global warming: human pollutants.
is running against
Democrat Claiborne
feel, Congressmem-
The Wirth bill would touch a number of
Pell for Rhode island's
bers figure that one
issues, from automobile emissions to population
open Senate seat next
control efforts in the Third World. It would boost
fall. Democrats aren't
call or letter represents
research funds for alternative energy sources -
likely to grant anyot her
about 500 constituents.
solar, wind, geothermal, and alternative auto fuels
legislation easy pas-
like ethanol and methanol. Some environmental-
COOL IT! with & cam-
sage. Because of Its
ists were disturbed by the bill's Increased re-
stringent automobile ef-
pus letter campaign.
search funding for new standardized nuclear
ficiency and emissions
power plant designs (efficiency is cheaper, so
requirements, some
Write your senators
why waste time and money on nukes?), but these
speculate that her bill
and representative at:
provisions may be dropped from final legislation.
may be black-holed In
committee anyway by
Schneider's bill also would loosen the
John Dingell, (D-Mich.)
House:
tap on research funding for alternative energy
chair of the House En-
Honorable
sources, and sets tougher emission standards for
ergy and Commerce
U.S. House of
industry and vehicles. This bill would require new
committee.
Representatives
cars to get better gas mileage (eventually as high
as 45 miles per gallon) and encourage state
Washington, D.C. 20515
governments to adopt energy planning laws that
emphasize using the cheapest energy supplies
Senate:
first.
Honorable
A joint resolution backed by the National
U.S. Senate
Wildlife Federation calls on the nation to adopt
Washington, D.C. 20510
some of the best provisions of both the Wirth and
Schnelder measures. The resolution (S.J.Res. 88
and H.J.Res. 207) calls for a national commitment
to reduce current U.S. carbon dioxide emissions
by 20 percent by the year 2000, and Increase
funding and research for alternative energy
sources, energy and automobile efficiency. It also
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This national conference will equip participants with effective tactics
powerful energy of college students.
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Specifically, Earth Day 1990 urges stu-
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