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- Subject: ACTIVISM: Call to Advise Appointments to Agriculture & Energy Depts.
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- => econet en.alerts 12:37 am Jan 28, 1993
- => Subject: Ariculture And Energy Appointment
-
- Sierra Club Needs Your Help:
- Appointments to Agriculture, Energy Departments
- -----------------------------------------------
-
- Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary and Agriculture Secretary Mike
- Espy are about to make decisions on key sub-Cabinet positions
- that will profoundly affect environmental policy for the next
- four years and beyond. We need your urgent, immediate action
- to generate pressure on them to appoint people with strong
- environmental credentials to these posts. The Wise Use Movement
- and the oil, coal, and nuclear industries are mounting campaigns
- to get their cronies placed in key positions.
-
- Today, please make two phone calls or send two faxes to help
- make sure that critical issues at Agriculture and Energy are
- in good hands.
-
- 1) Contact Mike Espy, Dept. of Agriculture -- Office of the
- Secretary:
-
- Tel: 202/720-3631
- Fax: 202/720-5437
-
- Urge him to appoint a person with strong conservation
- credentials to be Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources
- and the Environment. This person should be an advocate for
- protecting wilderness and ancient forests, and for managing
- the nation's forests for heathy ecosystems and for long term
- sustainability.
-
- 2) Contact Hazel O'Leary, Dept. of Energy -- Office of the
- Secretary:
-
- Tel: 202/586-6210
- Fax: 202/586-7644
-
- Urge her to appoint people with proven environmental track
- records to these three posts: Deputy Secretary, Under
- Secretary, and Assistant Secretary for Environmental Restoration
- and Waste Management. These people should help keep President
- Clinton's pledge to decrease U.S. dependence on polluting
- energy sources such as coal, oil, and nuclear power and increase
- our reliance on efficiency and renewables.
-
- Remember, the environmental grassroots efforts were credited
- with ensuring that Bruce Babbitt was named Secretary Of The
- Interior. You now have another chance to make a difference.
- Please call or send a fax today. Thank you.
-