Clark Wins Endorsements From Leading Environmentalists

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WILMINGTON, Jan. 21 (OneWorld US) -- Three top environmental thinkers and advocates denounced the Bush administration's environmental record and expressed support for the candidacy of Retired General Wesley K. Clark in Delaware Wednesday morning

"When George W. Bush took office, he became Commander in Chief of the anti-environmentalist forces in America and around the world," said Russell Peterson, former Governor of Delaware and one-time president of the National Audubon Society, at a press conference in Wilmington Wednesday morning. "We are very, very lucky to have someone like Wes Clark to run on the Democratic ticket and lead our country. We need a higher standard of leadership in the White House," Peterson continued.


Peterson was joined by Earth Policy Institute founder and president Lester Brown and former EPA Deputy Administrator W. Michael McCabe in criticizing the environmental record of the Bush administration and endorsing Clark for the presidency. "George Bush is dismantling the bipartisan environmental consensus that goes back to the Nixon administration," said Brown, emphasizing that environmental policy and sound economics go hand-in-hand. "We have the technology to restructure the U.S. economy to make it cleaner and more efficient. Wes Clark understands this. George Bush does not."


Brown criticized the current administration for its reluctance to take advantage of existing technologies that would supply power to vehicles and residences while emitting fewer greenhouse gases, which are believed to be the principal cause of global warming and other destructive climate change around the world. The renowned environmentalist, who has been described by the Washington Post as "one of the world's most influential thinkers," also chastized the current administration for basing environmental policy on its political agenda rather than on sound science.



Clark, who didn't participate in the Iowa caucuses, was the second-most common choice of registered Democratic voters in the most recent national poll conducted by the Gallup polling organization.

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