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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (137608)	4/11/2001 9:14:56 PM
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Clinton the environment President - Not In an August 14, 1996, memo to the President, CEQ Chair Kathleen McGinty candidly discusses the goal of the project-- to positively impact the President's re-election campaign: ``The political purpose of the Utah event is to show distinctly your willingness to use the office of the President to protect the environment. . . . It is our considered assessment that an action of this type and scale would help to overcome the negative views toward the Administration created by the timber rider. ____________________ Environmental Groups Blast Clinton for Signing Timber Rider WASHINGTON, July 28 -- Leaders of the major national environmental organizations today held a loud and angry "21 Chainsaw Salute" in front of the White House condemning President Clinton's signing of a budget bill that puts the logging industry above the law. A copy of the letter sent to the President follows. "Americans better get used to the sound of chainsaws in our national forests because that's what they're going to hear for the next two years," said Robbie Cox, president of the Sierra Club. "This bill is a huge giveaway of our national forests by Congress to the timber industry. The President had the power and the duty to stop this abuse and he failed." The 1995 rescissions bill, which the President signed on Thursday despite vetoing an earlier version, includes a provision, or rider, that suspends environmental laws through December 1996 to expedite logging on national forests across the country. The rider suspends laws to ease "salvage" sales of supposedly damaged trees, but defines salvage so broadly it applies to healthy forests across the country. "The chainsaw is the new law of the land on our national forests," said Greg Wetstone of the Natural Resources Defense Council. "When he signed this bill the President went back on his own word. The millions of Americans who care about our environment need more than just talk from our President." forests.org