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Sierra Club endorses Gore

At its July board meeting, the Sierra Club Board of Directors endorsed Vice President Al Gore to be the next president of the United States. The directors also passed a new resolution in support of reforming campaign finance laws and including serious third party candidates, like Ralph Nader, in the presidential debates. The Gore endorsement capped a six month process in which the Club surveyed all the chapters and thousands of volunteer leaders.

"The Sierra Club endorses Vice President Gore," said Robbie Cox, Sierra Club president, "because he is committed to cutting air and water pollution and protecting our nation's treasured forests and wildlands. As vice president, Al Gore helped strengthen clean air health standards, sped cleanup of Superfund toxic-waste sites, reduced automobile tailpipe pollution and protected America's spectacular landscapes." Cox added that Texas Gov. George W. Bush has said that if elected, he would weaken toxic-waste cleanup standards, allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and increase logging in national forests.

Gore has pledged to end timber sales in wild, roadless areas of our national forests and include Alaska's Tongass National Forest in the administration's roadless initiative, a stronger position than the U.S. Forest has advocated. He has also proposed a plan to cut air pollution and global warming emissions from power plants.

The Club directors recognized consumer-advocate Ralph Nader for his strong record on globalization, trade agreements, democracy and the environment, but emphasized the urgency of defeating Bush.

&emdash; From "The Planet", Sierra Club publication, September 2000

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