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[From EcoNet en.alerts Conference]
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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 
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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.