Word: sierras
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...dangerous ecological threat because the big rigs emit more pollutants. Ford's 1 million annual truck sales account for a third of the U.S. market. By voluntarily cleaning up its truck emissions, Ford is challenging the industry to do likewise. Says Daniel Becker, director of energy policy at the Sierra Club: "Ford deserves applause for coming out earlier than they were required to with cleaner trucks...
...sense of national priorities," complains Harvey Sicherman, president of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a conservative think tank. That could leave Americans confused as to why we get into conflicts and what constitutes success. Gore pushed hard for intervention in Rwanda, for instance. Where would that leave, say, a Sierra Leone in a Gore Administration...
...individual and collaborative pursuits. His boyhood in San Francisco was spent roving vacant lots, searching for specimens. An only child, he began growing caterpillars into butterflies at the age of six. At eight he became a student member of the California Academy of Sciences. At 12 he joined the Sierra Club. At 15 he discovered a member of the heather family, a Presidio manzanita, which had not been seen for 50 years. This subspecies, Ravenii, was later named for him. He did his undergraduate work at Berkeley, got his Ph.D. at UCLA and entered teaching, but not a cloister...
...green lobby has never had better White House access and is consulted early about legislation and regulations, following years of virtual exile under Reagan and Bush. "We're part of the process now," says Dan Weiss, the Sierra Club's political director...
Other panelists were Veronica Eady, the executive director of Alternatives for Community and Environment, and a member of the board of directors of the Sierra Club; Robert Massie, executive director of the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies; and Michael B. McElroy, Butler professor of environmental studies and chair of the Harvard University Committee on the Environment. Rep. Philip Sharp (D-Ind.) moderated the panel...