Radio Advisory on Environment

Dunlop calls latest Sierra Club attack ads "misleading" -- Asks Gore-Browner, "where's the beef?" on environment Radio Advisory October 27, 2000 Speaking to one of the largest drive-time audiences in the Washington, D.C. metro area, AdTI fellow Becky Norton Dunlop challenged the claims of both national and Virginia-state environmental groups and challenged them to start telling "the whole truth." The former Virginia Secretary of Natural resources and Reagan Administration aide appeared on WAVA radio on Friday, October 27 on the Don Kroah show, where she discussed her widely praised new book on her battles with EPA, Clearing the Air. Dunlop termed advertisements that extremist groups such as the Sierra Club are running in Virginia and more than a dozen other states nationally -- most of them targeted at market environmentalists such as one-time boss, former Virginia Governor George Allen -- misleading and incomplete. "Both the Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters are misrepresenting Governor Allen's record on the environment," Dunlop said. "Let me remind all the voters throughout Virginia that the problems that exist because of the Tidewater site" -- which the activist ads blame almost wholly on Allen -- "existed while Chuck Robb was Governor. The Tidewater site was not put on the list by Governor Chuck Robb, so to mention that George Allen did not put the site on Superfund list without mentioning Chuck Robb didn't either, is disingenuous." The ads also continue to ignore the fact that overall, Virginia's water and air quality, according to a Richmond Times-Dispatch report on a Virginia commonwealth study "declined until 1994, then started to improve" -- precisely the years Allen (1994-98) was governor and Dunlop the state's lead environmental official. Asked about the assertion by Vice President Al Gore and some environmental activists that America's environment is worsening, Dunlop remarked: "Gore continuously insists that quality of the environment is getting worse. "He has had a long enough time to improve the environment and should not be in office if the environment has not improved under his leadership." For more information about Clearing the Air and Becky Norton Dunlop, please contact: Kenneth Brown 703-351-4969 kenbrown@adti.net www.adti.net

Dunlop calls latest Sierra Club attack ads "misleading" --
Asks Gore-Browner, "where's the beef?" on environment

Radio Advisory
October 27, 2000

Speaking to one of the largest drive-time audiences in the Washington, D.C. metro area, AdTI fellow Becky Norton Dunlop challenged the claims of both national and Virginia-state environmental groups and challenged them to start telling "the whole truth." The former Virginia Secretary of Natural resources and Reagan Administration aide appeared on WAVA radio on Friday, October 27 on the Don Kroah show, where she discussed her widely praised new book on her battles with EPA, Clearing the Air.

Dunlop termed advertisements that extremist groups such as the Sierra Club are running in Virginia and more than a dozen other states nationally -- most of them targeted at market environmentalists such as one-time boss, former Virginia Governor George Allen -- misleading and incomplete.

"Both the Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters are misrepresenting Governor Allen's record on the environment," Dunlop said. "Let me remind all the voters throughout Virginia that the problems that exist because of the Tidewater site" -- which the activist ads blame almost wholly on Allen -- "existed while Chuck Robb was Governor. The Tidewater site was not put on the list by Governor Chuck Robb, so to mention that George Allen did not put the site on Superfund list without mentioning Chuck Robb didn't either, is disingenuous."

The ads also continue to ignore the fact that overall, Virginia's water and air quality, according to a Richmond Times-Dispatch report on a Virginia commonwealth study "declined until 1994, then started to improve" -- precisely the years Allen (1994-98) was governor and Dunlop the state's lead environmental official.

Asked about the assertion by Vice President Al Gore and some environmental activists that America's environment is worsening, Dunlop remarked: "Gore continuously insists that quality of the environment is getting worse. "He has had a long enough time to improve the environment and should not be in office if the environment has not improved under his leadership."

For more information about Clearing the Air and Becky Norton Dunlop, please contact:

Kenneth Brown
703-351-4969
kenbrown@adti.net
www.adti.net