THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, October 12, 1996 TAG: 9610120011
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A14 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: 22 lines
In July 1995, President Clinton signed the Clearcut Timber Rider into law and in the process paved the way for logging trucks to:
Enter environmentally sensitive areas and destroy ancient, green ecosystems under the pretense of helping forest health.
Run over all other environmental laws (the Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, etc., are all suspended under the rider).
Bypass citizen oversight (the rider takes the public out of the process).
A repeal of this wretched law should have been easy.
I elected Clinton in '92 because he said he cared about the environment and the future. Despite countless promises, his administration has let us down time and again.
DEANNA WOOLSTON
Norfolk, Sept. 30, 1996 by CNB