IMS: Sierra Club

Sierra Club


Robert Cox, president of the National Sierra Club makes his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Asked if he could state three action items for the environment, he answered emphatically, yes! He sees this as a critical time for pro-environmental citizens to contact their congressman and assert their objection to Congress' plans to roll-back twenty-five years of environmental progress, including plans to repeal major portions of the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Endangered Species Act and the Superfund law to clean up toxic wastes. He pointed out Sierra Club literature that characterized these plans as a rejection of impartial science as applied to pollution and health by actions of panels dominated by representatives of the industries being regulated. Cox said the Sierra Club believes that these new proposals would make it almost impossible to write new environmental regulations, by adding a lengthy review process and allowing polluters new rights to stall the process with endless litigation.


Three ACTION Items