Earth Day and the Man Who Started It: Interview opportunities with Gaylord Nelson

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Earth Day and the Man Who Started It: Interview opportunities with Gaylord Nelson

DE PERE, WISCONSIN, Apr. 18 -/E-Wire/-- The visionary who founded Earth Day says the current assault on the nation's environmental laws - many of them rooted in legislation enacted after the first Earth Day in 1970 -- will seriously harm the environment in the long term.

Former U.S. Senator and Wisconsin Governor Gaylord Nelson, author of "Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise," will comment on current U.S. environmental policy and the state of the environment in an address to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Earth Day (Tuesday, April 22).

"This administration is a disaster environmentally - and that's sad," Nelson said in a recent interview. "It's going to have disastrous consequences for future generations."

Nelson, 86, remains passionate about maintaining the environmental protections adopted in the wake of the first Earth Day, when 20 million people demonstrated on behalf of the planet and made the environment a top priority with the Congress and President Nixon.

Nelson took part in the enactment of many of the more than two dozen major federal environmental laws created in the 1970s. During Earth Week this year, Nelson will join former and current congressmen in issuing a bipartisan statement that calls on students to lead the way in making the environment a priority issue in the 2004 election.

In "Beyond Earth Day" (University of Wisconsin Press, November 2002), the elder statesman discusses the state of the environment -- and the environmental movement -- 30-plus years after the public's mass demonstrations. Ever aware and optimistic about the grassroots' ability to force environmental protection onto the national political agenda, Nelson outlines a strategy for galvanizing the public, the Congress and the president to once again focus on improving the planet and our quality of life.

Specifically, Nelson's Environmental Agenda for the 21st Century calls for: * Instituting an annual State of the Environment Address by the president.

* Holding long-term, continuous Congressional hearings on key environmental issues to help the public keep up with important news on topics such as global climate change, fuel-economy standards, public lands and population growth.

* Committing long-term financial support to environmental education.

Nelson is available for interviews at (202) 429-2660, or by contacting his assistant, Linda Saunders, at (202) 429-2671.

* Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise has been named one of the top 1,000 academic press titles in 2003. For more information, see www.beyondearthday.com, or contact Deidre Woods of the University of Wisconsin Press at (608) 263-0734, or [REDACTED-EMAIL]

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