The Bulletin Frontrunner on Dunlop Environment Book

Book Praises Allen On Environment The Bulletin's FrontRunner 10/31/00 The Richmond Times-Dispatch (10/31, Schapiro) reported, "There's another book out on govemor-tumed-US Senate candidate George Allen - this one published by a member of his political family. Former Secretary of Natural Resources Becky Norton Dunlop examines her former boss's environmental legacy in 'Clearing the Air,' a reminiscence published, in part, by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, a conservative think tank. Dunlop, now vice president for external affairs of the Heritage Foundation, another conservative research institution, writes that Allen, a Republican, struck a balance between the environment and the economy. "The ideas that George Allen implemented were considered revolutionary when Virginia undertook them in 1994," she said. "Today, they are becoming more commonplace. I think we had something to do with that, and I take satisfaction." Democrats "counter that Allen and Dunlop weakened the state's environmental program in deference to the politically muscular industrial and corporate community that complained that regulations were driving up the cost of business." The Times Dispatch added, "Asked yesterday whether the book, published 12 days before the election, could become an issue for Allen in the closing days of the race, Dunlop replied that her publisher 'would've liked to get it out sooner.'"

Book Praises Allen On Environment

The Bulletin's FrontRunner
10/31/00

The Richmond Times-Dispatch (10/31, Schapiro) reported, "There's another book out on govemor-tumed-US Senate candidate George Allen - this one published by a member of his political family. Former Secretary of Natural Resources Becky Norton Dunlop examines her former boss's environmental legacy in 'Clearing the Air,' a reminiscence published, in part, by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, a conservative think tank. Dunlop, now vice president for external affairs of the Heritage Foundation, another conservative research institution, writes that Allen, a Republican, struck a balance between the environment and the economy. "The ideas that George Allen implemented were considered revolutionary when Virginia undertook them in 1994," she said. "Today, they are becoming more commonplace. I think we had something to do with that, and I take satisfaction." Democrats "counter that Allen and Dunlop weakened the state's environmental program in deference to the politically muscular industrial and corporate community that complained that regulations were driving up the cost of business." The Times Dispatch added, "Asked yesterday whether the book, published 12 days before the election, could become an issue for Allen in the closing days of the race, Dunlop replied that her publisher 'would've liked to get it out sooner.'"