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| OCTOBER 15, 1998
5:35 PM FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Sierra Club Sam Parry, (202) 675-7907 |
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| Details On Anti-Environmental Riders Still In Play In Battle Over Budget | ||||
| WASHINGTON -
October 15 - While the broad outlines of a budget agreement have been announced, it
appears that key negotiations on a handful of anti-environmental riders in the Omnibus
Budget bill are still in play this afternoon. Carl Pope, Executive Director of the
Sierra Club explains: "The deal is not done yet. While the Clinton Administration has succeeded in removing many of the destructive riders that were buried in the Omnibus Budget Bill, there's still environmentally damaging legislation left in this bill. "We are calling on President Clinton to redouble his efforts to strip out the remaining destructive provisions from the budget bill. For example, the Quincy Logging Bill, which would double logging in three National Forests in California, legislation that allows a road to be blasted through the some of Alaska's most fragile wildlife habitat in the Chugach National Forest, and a bill that allows oil companies that drill off our coasts to get away with paying below-market royalties to the American people, must all be stripped from this bill." ### |
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