SPOILER ALERT: Special guest tonight!
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According to The Green Life blog, it looks as if Carl Pope, of the Sierra Club, will be a special guest on this evening’s show.
Here’s a bit of his bio, from the Sierra Club website:
Carl Pope was appointed Executive Director of the Sierra Club in 1992. A veteran leader in the environmental movement, Mr. Pope has been with the Sierra Club for nearly thirty years. In that time he has served as Associate Conservation Director, Political Director and Conservation Director.
During Mr. Pope’s tenure as Executive Director, Sierra Club added 150,000 new members, growing to 700,000 of your friends and neighbors. The Club’s importance extends beyond numbers, though. The Aspen Institute, after surveying every member of Congress and key federal officials, named the Sierra Club as the most influential environmental organization in Washington, D.C.
Under Mr. Pope, the Sierra Club has helped protect nearly 10 million acres of wilderness, including such highlights as the California Desert, Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and California’s Giant Sequoias National Monument. The Club brought the litigation challenging the right of Vice-President Cheney’s Energy Task Force to conduct its policy making in secret negotiations with major energy interests. The Sierra Club also collected more than a million comments — the most public comments on a single regulatory issue in history — in support of protecting the remaining roadless areas in America’s National Forests.
(h/t Jenny with a Y)
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