McDonald, Norris AAEA

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=nbcc<h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25.5729px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What do these funders get from NBCC?</h4>They get a voice opposing the EPA and climate progress at every turn.  Alford and NBCC have opposed every viable climate policy advance from UN Kyoto Protocol to Senator McCain’s attempts in the early 2000s before he forgot how to be a climate champion, to Henry Waxman’s valiant 2009 effort to the 2015 Clean Power Plan.Along the way, Chevron and Exxon for instance get Harry Alford and NBCC to oppose the new EPA ozone air pollution standards, an issue that the oil industry has been hammering lately.  Alford testified before Congress on this recently and there was a session at the <a title="NBCC annual meeting schedule" href="http://www.cvent.com/events/nbccnow2015/agenda-e26ec6690ece4086b89e8ea6044d992e.aspx" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.07s ease-in-out 0s;">NBCC annual meeting</a> entirely dedicated to the EPA Ozone standards.<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 4px 0px 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(39, 44, 48); border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; margin: 1em 0px 1.4em; outline: 0px; padding: 20px 0px 0px 68.2188px; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: "" ""; line-height: 1.6; position: relative;">How do the Proposed EPA Ozone Regulations Effect My Business?<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 900px;">Moderator: William Kovacs, Senior Vice President, Environment, Technology & Regulatory Affairs U.S. Chamber of CommercePanelists: Arnold Baker, President, BakerReady Mix; Harry Alford, President & CEO, NBCC; Norris McDonald, founder/ president, African American Environmental Association; Steve Higley, AFPM</blockquote>Notes: An oversight or omission, The <a href="http://www.afpm.org/staff/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.07s ease-in-out 0s;">American Fuel and Petroleum Marketers Association (AFPM)</a> nor Steve Higley were listed speakers or sponsors of the meeting.Bill Kovacs of the US Chamber of Commerce appears to be a frequent wingman to Harry Alford, often appearing to testify alongside or cohosting events.Norris McDonald of the <a title="AAEA on NBCC" href="https://aaenvironment.blogspot.com/2015/08/national-black-chamber-of-commerce-2015.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.07s ease-in-out 0s;">African American Environmentalist Association posted this blog</a> describing the NBCC event and the panel on ozone standards with a slightly critical bent.  However, the AAEA now seems to be promoting upcoming state level town hall meetings NBCC is holding attacking the EPA Ozone Standards.<h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25.5729px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">National Black Chamber of Commerce History of Attacks on Climate and Air Pollution Solutions:...</h4>=

bs <a href="http://aaenvironment.blogspot.com/2011_10_01_archive.html">http://aaenvironment.blogspot.com/2011_10_01_archive.html</a>

also has legit info eg greenpeace gig?

virtual office? bunch of small law firms?

        1629 K Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006 443-569-5102

hollywood branch? mcd in pix w/ spike

Spike Lee featured the heads of two environmental groups in his HBO documentary, "If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise." He also featured EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. The four-hour two-part documentary premiered Aug. 23 on HBO and is his second four-hour documentary about the aftermath "When the Levees Broke."

Lee featured Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense and Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club. They both commented on the BP oil spill disaster. Lisa Jackson is from New Orleans and shared her personal story.

===LINorris McDonaldPresident at Center for Environment, Commerce & EnergyWashington, District of Columbia, United States500+ connections
Center for Environment, Commerce & EnergyWake Forest University
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AboutClean the environment. Maintain a vibrant economy. Promote the efficient use of natural resources.
Specialties: Passed national energy legislation. Recognized by the U.S. Congress for environmental work.
Enjoyed a great Roundtable hosted by Western Cape Minister of Tourism Beverley Schafer, facilitated by Anita Mediratta, Advisor to the Secretary…Liked by Norris McDonaldThe face of the #nuclear industry isn't what you think. Meet Alex Garcia, an engineer at Dominion Energy's North Anna Power Station. Curious…ExperienceCenter for Environment, Commerce & Energy GraphicPresidentCenter for Environment, Commerce & EnergyNov 1985 - Present 36 years 4 monthsThe Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy (Center), founded in 1985, is a national, nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to protecting the environment, enhancing human, animal and plant ecologies, promoting the efficient use of natural resources and increasing participation in the environmental movement.
The Center's main goals are to deliver environmental information and services directly into communities.
We work to clean up neighborhoods by implementing toxics…
Show more PresidentEnvironmental Hope & JusticeRun the organization.
CECE GraphicPresidentCECENov 1985 - Present 36 years 4 monthsWashington, DC
Entrepreneurial environmental organization
African American Environmentalist Association GraphicPresidentAfrican American Environmentalist AssociationNov 1985 - Present 36 years 4 monthsWashington, DC
Protect the environment and increase African American participation in the environmental movement.
EducationWake Forest University
Bachelor's degree Quantum Mechanics1971 - 1975
Activities and Societies: Lambdi Chi Alpha
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Volunteer ExperienceEnivironmentalist earth GraphicEnivironmentalistearthMitigation
Publications"Diary Of An Environmentalist: Norris McDonald AutobiographyAmazon  February 8, 2010 [self publ kindle?My name is Norris McDonald and I am an environmentalist. I was the first black environmentalist to work as a professional in the Washington, D.C-based environmental movement. Part of me tires of the 'first black' moniker, but I guess it is still important in the context of America's history. I hope to also provide some insight into the history of the environmental movement and the environmental justice movement. I formed the Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy and its outreach arm…
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Leaders in Energy Research, Communications, Policies & Analysis-Multicultural Environmental Leadership Development Initiative (MELDI)-Senior Information Technology Specialists-
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Environmental Impact Assessment
Africa Sustainable Energy Platform-Show 8 more groups Recommendations receivedClick here to view Betty Chambers’ profileBetty Chambers“Having known Mr. Norris McDonald for 30-plus years I wholeheartedly support/endorse him in all ventures. From our days as free-spirited undergraduates at Wake Forest University to our time as media sales representatives I have observed Norris to be a highly-motivated self-starter unafraid to go the creatively necessary extra mile to achieve desired results. As he moved into the world of political lobbyist (and beyond) I have been amazed but never surprised at the professional network that he has developed and the enterprises that he has undertaken. His wit, charm, and business-savvy have always inspired me and I honestly look forward to a joint endeavor in the future.”1 person has recommended Norris
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Current President and operator of the African American Environmental Association.</p><div class="base-aside-card__metadata" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.42857; font-weight: 400;">Portland, OR</div></div></li></ul></div></div><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">===</font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2 22 wiki hhm fluff?</font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris_McDonald">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris_McDonald</a></font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></font></font></p><div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style=""><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Norris McDonald</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;is an American&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalism" title="Environmentalism" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">environmental</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activist" class="mw-redirect" title="Activist" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">activist</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. He is the founder and president of the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Environmentalist_Association" title="African American Environmentalist Association" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">African American Environmentalist Association</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;and the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Environment,_Commerce_%26_Energy" class="mw-redirect" title="Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> He was listed by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebony_(magazine)" title="Ebony (magazine)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Ebony (magazine)</a>&nbsp;in 2012 as one of America's top 100 most influential African Americans.</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">died Feb, 24, 2021</b></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Norris McDonald, a leading black environmentalist, is the founder and president of the African American Environmental Association (AAEA), an organization dedicated to protecting the environment, enhancing human, animal and plant ecologies, and increasing African American participation in the environmental movement.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Norris McDonald was born to parents Sandy Norris McDonald Sr. and Katie Louvina Best in 1958 in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomasville,_North_Carolina" title="Thomasville, North Carolina" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Thomasville, North Carolina</a>. Norris McDonald Sr. was a high school principal and Katie Louvina Best worked for the local public school system. She died of breast cancer at the age of 26.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">McDonald attended&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Forest_University" title="Wake Forest University" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Wake Forest University</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1977. After college, McDonald moved to Washington, D.C. hoping to find a job as a Congressional staffer. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Instead, he was hired as a staffer at the Environmental Policy Institute in 1979 (now called&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_the_Earth" title="Friends of the Earth" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Friends of the Earth</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">) where he worked for the next seven years. McDonald’s primary duties included media relations, public education, researching, lobbying, and fundraising. During this time, McDonald was introduced to environmental issues across the nation. He also noticed that there were no black professionals working for environmental groups in the Washington, D.C. area. The absence of black professionals in those organizations inspired him to create the AAEA in 1985.</span></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McDonald led the new organization in what would soon be known as urban environmentalism. The organization promoted recycling, cleaning storm drains,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherization" title="Weatherization" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">weatherizing</a>, and climate-auditing homes in working-class neighborhoods in Washington, D.C. The Association’s activities usually created the first interest in environmental concerns in the capital’s&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_city" title="Inner city" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">inner city</a>&nbsp;neighborhoods.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Association also started a minority environmental internship program in 1989 which placed black college students as interns at several national environmental groups. Many of the first interns from AAEA moved on to work permanently with national environmental organizations and in federal agencies such as the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="United States Environmental Protection Agency" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Environmental Protection Agency</a>&nbsp;(EPA). Some have become environmental lawyers..".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Norris describes himself as a "black conservative environmentalist".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup>&nbsp;He believes the close ties of the black and environmental movements to the Democratic party are inefficient, arguing that "This leaves the communities out in the cold whenever the Republican Party wins.".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The AAEA has also sponsored creek walks, tours of inner city toxic waste sites, power plants, drinking-water plants, sewage treatment plants, and conservation farms, all with the idea of bringing together mostly white environmentalists with black inner city residents. The AAEA has also lobbied Congress and various state and local agencies to promote protection of the environment. McDonald himself has traveled to countries all over the world, including China and France, to tour nuclear power plants and examine alternate models for keeping the air clean and reducing global warming.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Because of his work in environmentalism, Norris McDonald has received various awards including the Environment Magazine Award in 1991, the Conservation award from the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Wildlife_Federation" title="National Wildlife Federation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Wildlife Federation</a>&nbsp;in 1997, and the Green Room Energy and Environmental Leadership Award in 2012. In December 2012 he was named one of Ebony magazine’s Power 100, meaning one of the most influential African Americans in the nation.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">McDonald was married to Kim-Lee Hawkins in 1991. They divorced in 1994. They had one child together, Sandy Norris McDonald III, whom McDonald raised as a single parent.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></font></font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></font></font></h2><div class="reflist" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal;"><div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-parent 0 list-item 0; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris_McDonald#cite_ref-1" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^</a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFteamEBONY2012" class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">teamEBONY (November 2012).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-culture/ebony-reveals-its-2012-power-100-list-100#axzz2iLHUMmhe" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"EBONY Reveals 2012 Power 100!"</a>. 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margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute “mission accomplished”?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The African American Environmentalist Association, founded in 1985, is one of the nation’s oldest African American-led environmental organizations. We are dedicated to protecting the environment, enhancing human, animal, and plant ecologies, promoting the efficient use of natural resources, and increasing African American participation in the environmental movement.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">AAEA has sponsored creek walks, river tours, Chesapeake Bay tours, internships with most of the mainstream environmental organizations, and tours of toxics sites, power plants, drinking-water plants, sewage treatment plants, and conservation farms. We lobby Congress and state and local agencies to protect the environment. We speak all over the country. We recently participated in programs of the New York Urban League, Black Enterprise magazine, the Society of Environmental Journalists, and the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland. We work on environmental justice. We challenge the traditional environmental community to expand their budgets, agendas, and staffs to include African American participation.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Our main goal is to deliver environmental information and services directly into communities. We work to clean up neighborhoods by implementing toxics education and energy, water, and clean-air programs. We welcome all races interested in working for improvements in the African-American community.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In a perfect world we would eliminate smog, acid rain, and global warming through a combination of plug-in fuel-cell electric vehicles, wind power, photovoltaic power, nuclear power plants, clean coal, and ocean-based electric generation systems.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What are you working on at the moment?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>We recently testified in the Maryland legislature to help pass a clean-cars emissions bill and a four-pollutant bill. We are currently working with a coalition to take nuclear-waste management out of the Department of Energy and place it in an independent nuclear-waste management agency.</b> We are also working to amend the Clear Skies legislation to include an Environmental Justice Allowance Reserve amendment. It is basically designed to protect minority and low-income communities if the legislation is passed.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What long and winding road led you to your current position?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">I have been a professional environmentalist for 26 years. I started in 1979 with the Environmental Policy Center/Institute (now Friends of the Earth). I directed the Energy Conservation and Transportation Project and started AAEA in 1985.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>I became a chronic, acute asthmatic in 1991 (the hottest year on record at the time).</b> I became a single parent with full custody of my son after a divorce in 1994. These two events led to a reevaluation of how I could and would approach my environmental work. I gave up on building a very large organization and downsized to work to accomplish large victories through small, concentrated efforts. As a result, AAEA is a small, volunteer organization. We have been reasonably successful in accomplishing the missions we target. We have supported some environmentally friendly development projects.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">These adjustments were reasonable because I went into respiratory failure on July 21, 1991, and again in 1996. I attribute these near-death experiences to smog.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">How many emails are currently in your inbox?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">There are always hundreds of emails in my various inboxes. I designed, built, and now run 15 websites and have to check emails on all of them. I feel like I am on the Nebuchadnezzar (Morpheus’ ship in the movie The Matrix) monitoring multiple computer screens viewing the matrix.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Who’s the biggest pain in the ass you have to deal with?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>I am pained by the way the black community and the environmental community are prisoners to the Democratic Party.</b> This leaves the communities out in the cold whenever the Republican Party wins. The Republican Party now runs the White House, Congress, and the majority of governorships and state legislatures. So the biggest pains I deal with are close-minded people who are afraid to wander off the plantation. My fellow blacks and greens: Free your minds and your butts will follow.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Who’s nicer than you would expect?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Nature Conservancy. I say this because they completed our Diversity Survey knowing that they would not do well. It was still a sign of respect for what we are trying to do. Most of the other large groups ignore us. It is arrogant. It is racist. It is an indicator of how they feel about the black community and individual blacks. AAEA looks forward to working with The Nature Conservancy on cooperative projects.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Where were you born? Where do you live now?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">I was born in Thomasville, N.C. I now live in Fort Washington, Md. I was born in the segregated South. My mother’s parents were tenant farmers in eastern North Carolina. Thomasville is mid-state, and my parents lived at home with my paternal grandmother when I was born. My parents dropped out of A&T State University when I was born. My father later went back and got his degree (and more degrees later). They then moved to Greensboro, N.C., where I spent the early part of my life.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What has been the worst moment in your professional life to date?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">When I have personally and professionally crashed and burned and taken time to come back (it has happened twice). Our budgets flatlined in 1994 and again in 1998. Regrouping usually takes about two to three years. Interestingly, these worst moments led to me spending more time with my son. So worst moments have led to best moments. The 1991 and 1996 respiratory failures were pretty bad moments too.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What’s been the best?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Passing national energy and civil-rights legislation. I helped write and pass the Shared Energy Savings Program of 1986, which was signed by President Reagan. I also assisted in the passage of the NO FEAR Act of 2002, the first civil-rights legislation passed in the 21st century, which was signed by President Bush. The Notification of Federal Employees Anti-Discrimination and Retaliation (NO FEAR) Act holds federal agencies responsible for acts of discrimination </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">by taking monetary judgments out of the offending agency’s budget instead of out of the general treasury. The legislation came out of a case where <b>Marsha Coleman-Adebayo successfully sued the U.S. EPA for discrimination and won a $600,000 judgment during the Clinton administration.</b></span></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What environmental offense has infuriated you the most?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Smog and the lack of political and societal will to prevent it. The average person places the blame for smog somewhere else. It is corporate America, or the utilities, or “traffic,” or factories, or pollution from other states or countries. Yet we want all of the amenities of America — televisions, computers, large cars and trucks, big houses, second homes, and every gadget that man and womankind can think of. Yet nobody wants a power plant, pipeline, or power lines anywhere near him or her. We want power everywhere, but we want to build absolutely nothing, anywhere near anything (BANANA) — not in my backyard (NIMBY). If we BANANA NIMBY anytime and anywhere, we should not expect electricity and gas all the time and everywhere.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Who is your environmental hero?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Dick Gregory. He was talking about environmental protection and nutrition back in the 1960s. I consider Gregory to be the godfather of the environmental-justice movement too. He was talking justice and environmental protection well before the formal EJ movement started.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Gregory was a founding board member of the African American Environmentalist Association. He also personally helped me when I had asthma trouble in the 1990s. He arranged credit at a health store for me. He would even give me rides home on occasion (albeit in a Rolls Royce), which I greatly appreciated, since I did not have a car in 1991.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Who is your environmental nightmare?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">My current nightmare is the “opposition dogma” of the mainstream environmental movement. It appears that this community has adopted a philosophy of opposing everything. OK, traditional environmental groups support clean air, water, and land. But it appears that they oppose all innovative ways to get there and rely on old techniques of opposition politics. I think this is what led to the declaration by Shellenberger, Nordhaus, and Werbach that “Environmentalism Is Dead.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">”</span></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Unfortunately, the air is still polluted and many rivers are still unfishable and unswimmable. And water in urban areas can be dangerous to drink. The low-hanging fruit has been picked. We should be open to trying new ways to get to the high-hanging fruit instead of settling for nothing.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What’s your environmental vice?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">I do not eat right. I should be trying to “get back to garden,” but I am a little lazy in this area. I know we were not designed to eat too much meat. It should only be on special occasions. The Woodstock Nation turned out to be a fat nation.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What are you reading these days?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Christie Todd Whitman It’s My Party Too (just finished it). I read five or six newspapers every day. I read National Journal, Energy User News, Pollution Engineering magazine, Business Week, Black Enterprise and Jet magazines and various blog sites. I surf the web. I read the Bible.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What’s your favorite meal?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Lobster and bluefish stuffed with crab meat (with a full carafe of white wine).</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Which stereotype about environmentalists most fits you?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">I am a black conservative environmentalist. None of the stereotypes fit me.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What’s your favorite place or ecosystem?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Chesapeake Bay. When I lived in Annapolis for three years, I loved fishing under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. I had Black Walnut Creek in my backyard and a beautiful bay view. I became a bird watcher because of the many birds in my backyard.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What’s one thing the environmental movement is doing particularly well?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Raising money. The environmental movement is now a $6 billion per year industry. My particular complaint is that virtually none of this money is invested in the black community or in black people via staff. (Yes, there is a black community in virtually every city and town in the U.S.)</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The money has made the groups arrogant and has blinded them to any self-reflection. They have the truth, the light, and the way, and they do not need to hear from anybody disagreeing with them. In fact, they will try to discredit you if you disagree on dogma. So the environmental community is good at raising money. Unfortunately, the money has made them lose their souls. Blue-state foundations support their segregation and racism.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">(Note to Shellenberger, Nordhaus, and Werbach: They are not dead financially.)</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What’s one thing the environmental movement is doing badly, and how could they do it better?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Diversity. The environmental movement is either anti-black or ignores the black community. They do not hire black professionals. They cannot retain blacks when they do hire them because of the hostile personnel and policy practices at most of the groups.</b></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">They could do better by hiring blacks and considering reviewing some policy positions that would make it easier for blacks to accept operating philosophies. They can open accounts at black-owned banks. They can invest in small minority organizations (not us — we are not self-promoting here). We are open to cooperative projects.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">If you could institute by fiat one environmental reform, what would it be?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">I would allow car manufacturers and utilities to expense the manufacture and sale of 20 million <b>fuel-cell-powered electric vehicles per year in the U.S., powered by hydrogen produced from nuclear power plants,</b> wind turbines, hydro, photovoltaics, and ocean-powered electric power plants.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What was your favorite band when you were 18? How about now?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sly & the Family Stone. My favorite band now is U2. Of course Lenny Kravitz and Prince are not bands. The Rolling Stones are probably the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band of all time. I was a big Jimi Hendrix fan too.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What’s your favorite TV show? Movie?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Entourage on HBO. The Matrix trilogy.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What are you happy about right now?</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">I am above ground. My son is healthy. 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We resolve environmental problems through the application of practical environmental solutions.</font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Thursday, August 13, 2015</font></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">National Black Chamber of Commerce 2015 Annual Conference</font></b></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PRESIDENT'S CORNER</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By Norris McDonald</span><br /><br /><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC)</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> held its annual conference in Hollywood, Florida from Wednesday, August 5 - Saturday, August 8, 2015.&nbsp; I participated on a panel titled, 'How do the Proposed EPA Ozone Regulations Affect My Business.'&nbsp;&nbsp; I thoroughly enjoyed attending the conference.</span><br /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The NBCC is promoting that the air is getting cleaner but asthma is getting worse.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp; Thus, they say that not only will the</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> proposed EPA ozone rule </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">will not only NOT be met, but will serve as a developmental, operations and regional deterrent to business sustainability.&nbsp;&nbsp; The NBCC believes that reducing the ozone standard to 65 parts per billion (ppb) from the current 75 ppb will prevent business development because of the penalties in the Clean Air Act: restriction on building permits and halting highway funds.&nbsp; According to the NBCC, if a state is in noncompliance, businesses will go elsewhere.&nbsp; Urban areas are usually in non-attainment for ozone.&nbsp; So business will not locate in these areas, according to the NBCC.&nbsp; </span><br /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><br />But does NBCC have an alternative proposal to replace the EPA ambient molecular-level regulatory restrictions?&nbsp; They do not.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Harry Alford and Steve Higley</span><br /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Norris McDonald and Arnold Baker</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The&nbsp; 'How do the Proposed EPA Ozone Regulations Affect My Business' panel was moderated by Bill Kovacs, Environment Director for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">AAEA has offered that we could join their campaign if they endorse our Energy Defense Reservations (EDR) Program.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp; We believe that a global warming world will far outstrip obtuse, bureaucratic National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).&nbsp; The air might be getting better in general, but asthma rates in minority areas continue to go up.&nbsp; Not only could the EPA regs NOT clean the air and impose uncertainty and constraints on businesses, it might also be increasing asthma rates in minority areas by not mitigating air pollution in those areas.&nbsp; Anybody who looks at the maze of Clean Air Act regulations will see a Rubik's Cube of regulatory confusion.&nbsp; Add business sector litigation to that and you have a mess.&nbsp; What you don't have is a strategy to clean the air in minority community communities or mitigate global warming (no, those regs aren't going to work either).</span><br /><br /><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We are inviting the NBCC and the U.S. Chamber to adopt our (Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy) energy, air and global warming mitigation plan.</b><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The conference was absolutely great.&nbsp; The theme of the conference was, 'The Family Business.'&nbsp; It featured: Baker/Dundas, Boyd, Biagas, Alford/Debow and Hall.&nbsp;&nbsp; The conference was at the luxurious Diplomat Resort and Spa, which sits right on the Atlantic Ocean.&nbsp; I had a great view from my room.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b style="">Dr. Ben Carson </b>was scheduled to appear at the conference, but the first GOP debate was on that night. He sent a video to address 'Our Family Values,' before the group.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Panels included: Opportunity for the Family Business, Our Family Meeting (w/ Fox Business Network's Charles Payne), The Family Wallet, How To Access and Extract Business and Economic Data, HBCUs are Good For the Family Business, International Family Business, Country Presentations,&nbsp; Other activities included a screening of the new film, 'The Man in 3B.'&nbsp; There was also a Celebrity Charitable Runway Fashion Show.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sponsors included: MyWireless.org, Verizon, Facebook, Penn National Gaming, Inc., <b>KOCH</b>, TIAA-CREF, Georgia Pacific, Comcast/NBCUniversal, Bay Electric Co, Inc.,<b> U.S. Chamber of Commerce</b>, Fed Ex,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Consumers for Smart Solar, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CTIA (The Wireless Association), Chevron, Gulf Power (A Southern Company), Southwest airlines, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">EDMC (Education Management Corporation,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Intuit, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">American Chemistry Council</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Photobella, Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce and The</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Hatchett Firm</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;

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Norris McDonald, the president of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association" title="African American Environmentalist Association" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">African American Environmentalist Association</a> (AAEA), describes himself as "a black conservative environmentalist". <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[1]</a> McDonald is also the the co-chair of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nuclear_Fuels_Reprocessing_Coalition" title="Nuclear Fuels Reprocessing Coalition" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Nuclear Fuels Reprocessing Coalition</a>, which champions the use of "highly enriched uranium and plutonium from nuclear warheads as fuel in new nuclear power plants". <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[2]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#Background" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">1 Background</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#Support_for_nuclear_power" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">2 Support for nuclear power</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#Criticism_of_environmentalists" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">3 Criticism of environmentalists</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#Appearances" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">4 Appearances</a></li>

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In response to a question from a reader of Grist, McDonald stated he had "wanted to work on the Hill and saw an ad in the newspaper to work at an environmental group that was located two blocks from Capitol Hill. Once I started working there, I saw the width and depth of the issues and fell in love." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[3]</a> In an interview with Grist McDonald stated that he "started in 1979 with the Environmental Policy Center/Institute (now <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Friends_of_the_Earth" title="Friends of the Earth" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;">Friends of the Earth</a>). I directed the Energy Conservation and Transportation Project and started AAEA in 1985." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[4]</a>

Asked why the AAEA supports nuclear power Norris McDonald wrote that it was "because it is emission free. It produces no emissions that contribute to global warming and smog. It emits no mercury. It emits no particulates. It is a major plus for asthmatics like me. The waste can be recycled, and world-threatening warhead uranium and plutonium can be utilized in nuclear power plants. I got tired of waiting for the big meltdown. It has been 26 years since Three Mile Island." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[5]</a> A June 2005 newspaper article said that McDonald "was against nuclear power until about five years ago, when he began seeing it as a way to reduce air pollution." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[6]</a>

A few months earlier McDonald was floating a proposal for AAEA to host a conference on nuclear power in an attempt to marginalize anti-nuclear groups. "We should have a conference that would include environmentalists for nuclear power. That would be interesting. The nuts would try to kill it and it would probably recruit more informal support. If the foundations were included, it would moderate the antinuclear lunatic fringe. The reasonable groups would not want to be embarrassed in front of the funders. I would still have security there. Hmmmmm. I wonder who should sponsor such a gathering. Sounds like a job for the AFRICAN AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTALIST ASSOCIATION," he wrote on the<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nuclear_Energy_Institute" title="Nuclear Energy Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Nuclear Energy Institute</a>'s (NEI) blog. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[7]</a>

McDonald pitched nuclear power to the December 2006 meeting of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Governors_Association" title="National Governors Association" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">National Governors Association</a> in Wilmington, Delaware. "If you're an environmental group, I don't see how you can meet your numbers without adopting nuclear power. It's emissions-free," he told the audience. "Don't neglect the forest for the trees." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[8]</a>

In April 2006, McDonald wrote a pro-nuclear letter to The Journal News in Westchester, N.Y., presenting himself as a New York resident. "Nuclear power is the key to protecting our environment and we should be proud of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Indian_Point_(Nuclear_Power_Station)" title="Indian Point (Nuclear Power Station)" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Indian Point (nuclear power plant)</a> and our state for supporting the fight against global warming," the letter stated. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[9]</a> In a pointed 2004 editorial, McDonald charged that "Riverkeeper and the New York Department of Environmental Conservation are gambling with the health and well-being of New York communities of color by trying to close the Indian Point nuclear power plants." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[10]</a>

In an April 2006 blog post encouraging readers to listen to a forthcoming interview with McDonald on <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Public_Radio" title="National Public Radio" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">National Public Radio</a>, the NEI's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eric_McErlain&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eric McErlain (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Eric McErlain</a> described him as "our friend." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[11]</a> In the interview, McDonald argued that: "Three Mile Island happened in 1979. I mean, that was a long time ago, a quarter century ago, and nuclear power has been providing emission-free electricity - up to 20 percent of the total amount of electricity used in the United States - during that period, contributing nothing to the global warming problem." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[12]</a>

McDonald wrote an article in the July / August 2005 issue of the Jackson Advocate applauding the decision of "the Board of Directors of the Claiborne County chapter of the NAACP in Mississippi" to change its position and begin "supporting construction of another unit at the Grand Gulf nuclear power plant in Port Gibson." McDonald added, "The Claiborne NAACP, which has been more engaged in the debate over nuclear power than any other chapter of the civil rights organization, recognizes that African Americans in Claiborne County and the surrounding area stand to benefit considerably from the construction of a new nuclear plant." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[13]</a>

In a 2004 op/ed, McDonald wrote, comparing nuclear power plants to fossil fuel plants: "What's more dangerous to an inner-city kid - a nuclear power plant or smog? No contest. Absolutely no contest."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[14]</a>

McDonald described his decision to support nuclear power in a 2003 interview: "One of my hobbies is studying subatomic physics, quantum mechanics. ... After AAEA was founded, I went back and studied what happened at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. I did a technical analysis of nuclear power and how it works. I tried my best to defeat what I thought could be a good technology. I tried everything I could, but I could not defeat it. ... AAEA just came out publicly for nuclear power in January 2002, so it's very recent. It was about three years ago that I was studying nuclear power and the epiphany hit me." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[15]</a>

In June 2002, McDonald spoke at a press conference organized by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nuclear_Energy_Institute" title="Nuclear Energy Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Nuclear Energy Institute</a>, the U.S. nuclear power industry's main lobby group. "I say emission-free electricity from nuclear power is a godsend," McDonald said. A news article on the event identified McDonald as part of "the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alliance_for_Sound_Nuclear_Policy" title="Alliance for Sound Nuclear Policy" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Alliance for Sound Nuclear Policy</a>, which has been running full-page newspaper advertisements urging Congress to override Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn's April 8 veto of President Bush's designation of Yucca Mountain as the national disposal site for commercial nuclear power plant waste." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[16]</a>

In April 2002, McDonald spoke at a Congressional news conference in support of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, alongside representatives from the Nuclear Energy Institute; the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/60_Plus_Association" title="60 Plus Association" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;">60 Plus Association</a>, a known <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Front_group" title="Front group" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;">front group</a>; the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Association_of_Manufacturers" title="National Association of Manufacturers" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;">National Association of Manufacturers</a>; and the Utility Workers Unions of America, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/AFL-CIO" title="AFL-CIO" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">AFL-CIO</a>. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[17]</a> A news account of a similar pro-Yucca event in February 2002 described McDonald as "one of a half-dozen speakers assembled by the Nuclear Energy Institute to congratulate President Bush on selecting Yucca Mountain, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, for a nuclear waste repository and to urge Congress to advance the program by rejecting an anticipated veto from Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn later this year." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[18]</a>

Norris is also an enthusiastic supporter of the proposed relicensing of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Indian_Point_(Nuclear_Power_Station)" title="Indian Point (Nuclear Power Station)" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Indian Point</a> nuclear power station. At a public hearing on the proposal Norris stated "I love Indian Point. It's about the four-year-old child in Harlem, in a high-rise apartment on a non-attainment day, without air-conditioning." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[19]</a>

McDonald complained that he and his son were asked to leave an August 2007 meeting in Transylvania County, North Carolina called the "Southeast Convergence for Climate Action." The goal of the meeting was to "bring together activists across the region who are fighting mountaintop removal mining and coal and nuclear power plants," reported the Citizen-Times (Asheville, N.C.). <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[20]</a>

McDonald also criticized a related protest at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bank_of_America" title="Bank of America" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;">Bank of America</a> in Asheville, N.C. the following week. Environmental activists were peacefully protesting the bank's support of coal-fired power plants. McDonald called the group "the extremists of the environmental movement," and implied they wanted to shut down all power plants. Referring to his ouster from the earlier meeting, "after disagreeing with the group’s leaders," McDonald said: "If I would have been in the Jim Jones camp, Jim Jones would have kicked me out because I would have told people not to drink the Kool-Aid. ... [The protestors] shouldn’t be drinking this Kool-Aid." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[21]</a>

In April 2004, McDonald spoke at a National Press Club Press Conference on "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Eco-Imperialism" title="Eco-Imperialism" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;">Eco-Imperialism</a> and Eco-Segregation: How traditional environmental groups are largely segregated and their policies hurt poor people and minorities in the U.S. and throughout the world," according to the AAEA website. The press conference was organized by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_Driessen" title="Paul Driessen" style="background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Paul Driessen</a>, the author of the book "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eco-Imperialism:Green_Power,Black_Death&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: initial; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death</a>," a PR professional and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Climate_change_skeptic" title="Climate change skeptic" class="mw-redirect" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll transparent; text-decoration: none;">climate change skeptic</a>. Other speakers included <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Niger_Innis" title="Niger Innis" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;">Niger Innis</a> of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Congress_of_Racial_Equality" title="Congress of Racial Equality" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;">Congress of Racial Equality</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Meredith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Meredith (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;">John Meredith</a> of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Project_21&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Project 21 (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;">Project 21</a>, Dr. C.S. Prakash of Tuskegee University, Dr. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sallie_Baliunas" title="Sallie Baliunas" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;">Sallie Baliunas</a> of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tech_Central_Station" title="Tech Central Station" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;">Tech Central Station</a>, and Dr. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roger_Bate" title="Roger Bate" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;">Roger Bate</a> of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Enterprise_Institute" title="American Enterprise Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;">American Enterprise Institute</a>. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[22]</a>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">January 24, 2008 - McDonald is giving a keynote address at an air quality and public health forum, at Mount Vernon Hospital, Mount Vernon, New York. The event is co-sponsored by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/New_York_Affordable_Reliable_Electricity_Alliance" title="New York Affordable Reliable Electricity Alliance" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">New York Affordable Reliable Electricity Alliance</a>, Mount Vernon Hospital and African American Men of Westchester County. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[23]</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association" title="African American Environmentalist Association" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">African American Environmentalist Association</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Environment,Commerce%26_Energy" title="Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nuclear_Fuels_Reprocessing_Coalition" title="Nuclear Fuels Reprocessing Coalition" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Nuclear Fuels Reprocessing Coalition</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.grist.org/comments/interactivist/2005/04/04/norris/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">We're Lovin' It!: Norris McDonald, president of the African American Environmentalist Association, answers Grist's questions</a>", Grist, April 4, 2005.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.grist.org/comments/interactivist/2005/04/04/norris/index1.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">Black and Green and Read All Over: Norris McDonald, president of the African American Environmentalist Association, answers readers' questions</a>", Grist, April 8, 2005.</li>

<li id="cite_note-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.grist.org/comments/interactivist/2005/04/04/norris/index1.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">Black and Green and Read All Over Norris McDonald, president of the African American Environmentalist Association, answers readers' questions</a>", Grist, April 8, 2005.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.grist.org/comments/interactivist/2005/04/04/norris/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">We're Lovin' It!: Norris McDonald, president of the African American Environmentalist Association, answers Grist's questions</a>", Grist, April 4, 2005.</li>

<li id="cite_note-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.grist.org/comments/interactivist/2005/04/04/norris/index1.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">Black and Green and Read All Over Norris McDonald, president of the African American Environmentalist Association, answers readers' questions</a>", Grist, April 8, 2005.</li>

<li id="cite_note-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_ref-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Paul Alongi, "Nuke plant safety still debated," The Greenville News (South Carolina), June 5, 2005.</li>

<li id="cite_note-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_ref-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Norris McDonald, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2005/04/another-environmentalist-for-nuclear.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">Another Environmentalist for Nuclear Energy</a>", April 7, 2005.</li>

<li id="cite_note-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_ref-11" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Eric McErlain, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2006/04/norris-mcdonald-on-npr-on-global.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">Norris McDonald on NPR on Global Warming</a>", NEI Nuclear Notes, April 17, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-18" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_ref-18" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Steve Tetreault, "Nuclear fuel reprocessing plant urged for Yucca Mountain site," Las Vegas Review-Journal (Nevada), February 20, 2002.</li>

<li id="cite_note-19" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_ref-19" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/IP_NRC-20Sep07.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">Critics, supporters, about even at latest Indian Point hearing</a>", MidHudson News, September 20, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-20" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_ref-20" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Mike McWilliams, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770813014" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">Environmental protesters hit downtown Asheville</a>," Citizen-Times (Asheville, N.C.), August 13, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-21" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_ref-21" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Mike McWilliams, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770813014" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">Environmental protesters hit downtown Asheville</a>," Citizen-Times (Asheville, N.C.), August 13, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-22" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_ref-22" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "News," <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://groups.msn.com/AAEA/news.msnw" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">African American Environmentalist Association website</a>, accessed August 30, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-23" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald#cite_ref-23" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Norris McDonald, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://aaeanewyork.blogspot.com/2008/01/aaea-president-to-speak-at-mt-vernon.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">AAEA President To Speak at Mt. Vernon Hospital Forum</a>," AAEA New York blog, January 12, 2008.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Amanda Griscom Little, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/magazine/02wwln-essay-t.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">Not in Whose Backyard?</a>," New York Times magazine, September 2, 2007.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OywQxfRHb0Q" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">Pro Nuclear Power Rally - Norris McDonald</a>" YouTube, Accessed September 8, 2007</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Norris McDonald, op/ed: "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/10012007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/indian_points_gift_to_greens.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">Indian Point's Gift to Greens</a>," New York Post, October 1, 2007.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Green Storm Trooper, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://greennuclearbutterfly.blogspot.com/2007/11/nuclear-asthmatic-hatchet-man-norris.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">Norris McDonald Writes Own Gossip?</a>," GreenNuclearButterfly blog, November 14, 2007.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1207/483226.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">Life-Saving Device Banned; Asthma Sufferers Furious</a>," WJLA-7 (Arlington, Virginia), December 26, 2007.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jessica Williams-Gibson, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chicagodefender.com/view.php?I=369" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">Blacks have important stake in environmental issues</a>," Chicago Defender, February 2008.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Erinn R. Johnson, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.blackenterprise.com/cms/exclusivesopen.aspx/id/4610" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: transparent url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">Environmental Group Strives to Educate: Norris McDonald hopes to bring blacks to the forefront of awareness</a>," BlackEnterprise.com, June 19, 2008.</li>

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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association" style="">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association</a>

The African American Environmentalist Association was founded by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald" title="Norris McDonald" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll transparent; text-decoration: none;">Norris McDonald</a> in 1985 and is described as the "membership and outreach arm" of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Environment,Commerce%26_Energy" title="Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll transparent; text-decoration: none;">Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy</a>, a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/501(c)(3)" title="501(c)(3)" style="background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: initial; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">501(c)(3)</a> tax-exempt, nonprofit organization. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[1]</a>

<div id="toctitle" style=" direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#Goals" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" none="none" repeat="repeat" scroll="scroll" transparent="transparent" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line"> Goals</a></div><ul style=" line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;">

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#Memberships" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">2 Memberships</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#AAEA_stances" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">3 AAEA stances</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#Pro-nuclear_power" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">3.1 Pro-nuclear power</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#On_liquid_natural_gas" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">3.2 On liquid natural gas</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#On_.22clean_coal.22" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">3.3 On "clean coal"</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#Backing_Bush" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">3.6 Backing Bush</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#On_offshore_drilling" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">3.7 On offshore drilling</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#Criticisms_of_environmental_groups" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">4 Criticisms of environmental groups</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#Fish_eggs_over_asthmatic_children" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">4.1 Fish eggs over asthmatic children</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#Greens_are_.22prisoners.22_to_the_Democrats" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">4.2 Greens are "prisoners" to the Democrats</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#Nuclear_weapons_to_power_program" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">4.3 Nuclear weapons to power program</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#Personnel" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">5 Personnel</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#Contact_information" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">6 Contact information</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#Midwest_office" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">6.1 Midwest office</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#Texas_chapter" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">6.2 Texas chapter</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#Nigeria_office" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">6.3 Nigeria office</a></li>

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</li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#Articles_and_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">7 Articles and resources</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#Related_SourceWatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">7.1 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">7.2 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#External_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">7.3 External resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-24" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#External_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">7.4 External articles</a></li>

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<h2 style="line-height: 19.2px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">Goals</h2>

The Association is "dedicated to protecting the environment, enhancing human, animal, and plant ecologies, promoting the efficient use of natural resources, and increasing African American participation in the environmental movement".<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[2]</a>

Among the group's program goals for 2007 are promoting: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[3]</a>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Construction</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Photovoltaic & Wind Power Production</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Nuclear Power Plant Construction</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Uranium Enrichment</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Spent Fuel Reprocessing</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Mixed Oxide (MOX) Reprocessing</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">LNG [liquid natural gas]</li>

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The group is listed as a member of the nuclear <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Astroturf" title="Astroturf" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;">astroturf</a> groups, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clean_and_Safe_Energy_Coalition" title="Clean and Safe Energy Coalition" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;">Clean and Safe Energy Coalition</a>,the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/New_York_Affordable_Reliable_Electricity_Alliance" title="New York Affordable Reliable Electricity Alliance" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;">New York Affordable Reliable Electricity Alliance</a> and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/New_Jersey_Affordable,Clean,Reliable_Energy_Coalition" title="New Jersey Affordable, Clean, Reliable Energy Coalition" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;">New Jersey Affordable, Clean, Reliable Energy Coalition</a>. Its founder is listed as a member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alliance_for_Sound_Nuclear_Policy" title="Alliance for Sound Nuclear Policy" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;">Alliance for Sound Nuclear Policy</a> and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nuclear_Fuels_Reprocessing_Coalition" title="Nuclear Fuels Reprocessing Coalition" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;">Nuclear Fuels Reprocessing Coalition</a>.

<h3 style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">Pro-nuclear power</h3>

According to McDonald, the Association supports "nuclear power because it is emission free. It produces no emissions that contribute to global warming and smog. It emits no mercury. It emits no particulates. It is a major plus for asthmatics like me". <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a>

On July 15, 2008, AAEA testified "at a public hearing before the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) ... in Scriba, New York." According to the group's blog, its testimony "was helpful in getting approval in July of the license renewal for the James A. FitzPatrick nuclear power plant State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) permit and Water Quality Certification (WQC). ... FitzPatrick expects its 20-year license renewal from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) soon, extending the station’s current 40-year license to 2034." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a>

<h3 style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">On liquid natural gas</h3>

In a December 2007 blog post titled "AAEA Supports Proposed <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ExxonMobil" title="ExxonMobil" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; background: none;">ExxonMobil</a> LNG Project," Norris McDonald presents a somewhat confusing picture of the organization's stance on liquid natural gas (LNG) plants.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_note-LNG-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a>

After declaring support for Exxon's proposed "floating liquefied natural gas plant 20 miles off the coast of New Jersey," McDonald adds: "Hopefully ExxonMobil will not make the same mistakes other projects have made." Referring to other LNG projects, AAEA "suggested partial minority ownership for these projects but the developers have not been receptive. Maybe this is part of the reason the projects are failing. Moreover, these proposed LNG facilities or their pipelines have a funny way of finding minority communities." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_note-LNG-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a>

McDonald adds: "The BHP Billiton project (Cabrillo Deepwater Port) near Malibu was rejected by the State of California, the AES proposal for Baltimore, Maryland is in limbo and the Broadwater Project proposal for the Long Island Sound does not appear to be moving forward. The Mitsubishi proposal in Long Beach failed due to its proxity to a minority community and a highly developed area. AAEA took no position on the Long Beach and Baltimore projects because of local community opposition." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_note-LNG-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a>

<h3 style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">On "clean coal"</h3>

In a January 2008 blog post, Norris McDonald expressed support for "a new $1.8 billion '<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clean_coal" title="Clean coal" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">clean coal</a>' demonstration plant that will capture carbon dioxide and store it underground permanently." The plant will be located in Mattoon, Illinois, and is "a joint venture between the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S._Department_of_Energy" title="U.S. Department of Energy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. Department of Energy</a> and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/FutureGen" title="FutureGen" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">FutureGen</a> Alliance, a non-profit consortium of coal producers and energy generators." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a>

The AAEA argues that the controverisal organophosphate chemical DDT (Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) "should be used to prevent deaths from malaria in African countries".

Due to its pro-DDT stance, the AAEA promotes the views of right-wing <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wise_Use" title="Wise Use" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wise Use</a> activists who share similar views.

In April 2004 McDonald spoke at a conference on Eco-Imperialism organized by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_Driessen" title="Paul Driessen" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Paul Driessen</a>, and which also included <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Niger_Innis" title="Niger Innis" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Niger Innis</a> of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Congress_of_Racial_Equality" title="Congress of Racial Equality" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Congress of Racial Equality</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Meredith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Meredith (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Meredith</a> of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Project_21&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Project 21 (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Project 21</a>, C.S. Prakash of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=AgBioWorld&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="AgBioWorld (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">AgBioWorld</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sallie_L._Baliunas" title="Sallie L. Baliunas" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sallie L. Baliunas</a> of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/TechCentralStation" title="TechCentralStation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">TechCentralStation</a>, and Roger Bate of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Enterprise_Institute" title="American Enterprise Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">American Enterprise Institute</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a> Both Baliunas and Bate are long-term climate sceptics.

The AAEA quotes Driessen's book on its website and gives links to Bate's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Africa_Fighting_Malaria" title="Africa Fighting Malaria" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Africa Fighting Malaria</a> website. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a>

Although Bush is widely internationally condemned for his lack of action on climate change, according to the AAEA "President George W. Bush understands the importance of the environment". Bush, says the Assocation, has "demonstrated a balanced approach to addressing the environment and the economy". He has "proposed numerous innovative environmental policies that are not generally covered by the press. We will continue to encourage him to implement and publicize his environmental agenda". <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a>

<h3 style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">On offshore drilling</h3>

In a September 2008 blog post, Norris McDonald opposed expanded offshore oil drilling. "The threat to our oceans and coastal areas is too great a risk to allow for oil drilling off the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and the gulf west of Florida," he stated. "Moreover, there is no need to risk our invaluable ocean environments and beaches because there is plenty of oil from shale in the Rocky Mountains and from coal-to-liquids." He added, "if legislation is passed to expand offshore oil drilling, the Congressional Black Caucus should consider attaching a Reparations Amendment to the bill. The reparation should be in the form of federal land offerings of forty acres to eligible families, preferably in the oil shale and coal areas." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a>

In contrast to its praise of George Bush, the Association routinely attacks mainstream environmental groups.

<h3 style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">Fish eggs over asthmatic children</h3>

"The basic issue pits Hudson River fish eggs against asthmatic children and elderly in Harlem and the South Bronx," wrote AAEA's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dan_Durett&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dan Durett (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Dan Durett</a> on the group's blog. Referring to a respected local environmental group, he added, "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Riverkeeper" title="Riverkeeper" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Riverkeeper</a> chooses protection of some fish eggs over asthmatic children in Harlem. AAEA chooses asthmatic children and elderly over protection of some fish eggs." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a>

<h3 style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">Greens are "prisoners" to the Democrats</h3>

McDonald labels the black and environmental communities "prisoners to the Democratic Party". He says "This leaves the communities out in the cold whenever the Republican Party wins ... So the biggest pains I deal with are close-minded people who are afraid to wander off the plantation. My fellow blacks and greens: Free your minds and your butts will follow".

McDonald also takes issue with the "opposition dogma" of the mainstream environmental movement that has a "philosophy of opposing everything." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a>

<h3 style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">Nuclear weapons to power program</h3>

Environmentalists says McDonald, should "support conversion of highly enriched uranium and plutonium from warheads into fuel to be used in a new generation of nuclear power plants". <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a>

The group's staff include: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norris_McDonald" title="Norris McDonald" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Norris McDonald</a> - President</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Zhang_Xiaoping&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zhang Xiaoping (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Zhang Xiaoping</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brian_Lee&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brian Lee (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Brian Lee</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sulaiman_Mahdi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sulaiman Mahdi (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sulaiman Mahdi</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_Moseley&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James Moseley (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">James Moseley</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kathleen_Logan_Smith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kathleen Logan Smith (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kathleen Logan Smith</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Georgeanne_Mallett&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Georgeanne Mallett (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Georgeanne Mallett</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dan_Durrett&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dan Durrett (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Dan Durrett</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ifeanyi_Joshua_Ezekwe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ifeanyi Joshua Ezekwe (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ifeanyi Joshua Ezekwe</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ronnie_Jones&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ronnie Jones (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ronnie Jones</a> - Attorney</li>

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The group's board of directors include: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Norris McDonald - Chairman</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eric_Watford&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eric Watford (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Eric Watford</a>, M.D. - Secretary/Treasurer</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Clarence_Williams&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Clarence Williams (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Clarence Williams</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_Stephenson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles Stephenson (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Charles Stephenson</a> - Ex Officio, founding board member, Chairman 1985-1995</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Derry_Bigby&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Derry Bigby (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Derry Bigby</a>, MBA</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Dix&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pat Dix (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pat Dix</a>, Esquire</li>

</ul>

Former board members include: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Dick_Gregory" title="Dick Gregory" style="text-decoration: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 102);">Dick Gregory</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Hahn-Baker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Hahn-Baker (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">David Hahn-Baker</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_Stephenson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles Stephenson (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Charles Stephenson</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bill_Chandler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bill Chandler (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bill Chandler</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Shizuko_Akie_Dixon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shizuko Akie Dixon (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Shizuko Akie Dixon</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dr. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lenneal_Henderson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lenneal Henderson (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lenneal Henderson</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jannie_Pittman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jannie Pittman (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jannie Pittman</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frank_Johnson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frank Johnson (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Frank Johnson</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dr. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ruth_Logan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ruth Logan (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ruth Logan</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_Lee&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles Lee (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Charles Lee</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sulaiman_Mahdi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sulaiman Mahdi (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sulaiman Mahdi</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Malik_Edwards&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Malik Edwards (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Malik Edwards</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Morning_Sunday&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Morning Sunday (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Morning Sunday</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Todd_Thomas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Todd Thomas (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Todd Thomas</a></li>

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Director <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ifeanyi_Joshua_Ezekwe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ifeanyi Joshua Ezekwe (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ifeanyi Joshua Ezekwe</a>

No 16 Bassie Ogamba Street

Off Adeniran Ogusanya Street

Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria

Phone: 234-1-8981503

Website: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://groups.msn.com/AAEANigeria" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">http://groups.msn.com/AAEANigeria</a>

Email: kleenmatesltd AT yahoo.com

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<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aaenvironment.com/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">African American Environmentalist Association</a>", accessed August 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.grist.org/comments/interactivist/2005/04/04/norris/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">We're Lovin' It!: Norris McDonald, president of the African American Environmentalist Association, answers Grist's questions</a>", Grist, April 4, 2005.</li>

<li id="cite_note-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "About Us," <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://groups.msn.com/aaea/aboutus.msnw" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">African American Environmentalist Association website</a>, accessed August 28, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.grist.org/comments/interactivist/2005/04/04/norris/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">We're Lovin' It!: Norris McDonald, president of the African American Environmentalist Association, answers Grist's questions</a>", Grist, April 4, 2005.</li>

<li id="cite_note-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Norris McDonald, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://aaeanewyork.blogspot.com/2008/08/aaea-new-york-helps-with-power-plant.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">AAEA New York Helps With Power Plant License Renewal</a>," African American Environmentalist Association - New York blog, August 25, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-LNG-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_ref-LNG_6-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:6.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_ref-LNG_6-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6.1</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_ref-LNG_6-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6.2</a> Norris McDonald, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://aaenvironment.blogspot.com/2007/12/aaea-supports-exxonmobil-lng-off-nj.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">AAEA Supports Proposed ExxonMobil LNG Project</a>," AAEA blog, December 12, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_ref-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Norris McDonald, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://aaeamidwest.blogspot.com/2008/01/doe-selects-clean-coal-demonstration.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">DOE Selects 'Clean Coal' Demonstration Site</a>," AAEA Midwest blog, January 11, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_ref-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "AAEA at National Press Club For Earth Day" <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://groups.msn.com/AAEA/news.msnw" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">African American Environmentalist Association Newsgroup</a>, accessed December 2007</li>

<li id="cite_note-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_ref-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "DDT Use It To Stop Deaths From Malaria In African Countries" <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aaenvironment.com/DDT.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">African American Environmentalist Association Website</a>, accessed December 2007</li>

<li id="cite_note-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_ref-10" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "President Bush: Innovative Environmentalist" <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aaenvironment.com/PresidentBush.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">African American Environmentalist Association Website</a>, accessed December 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_ref-11" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Norris McDonald, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://aaenvironment.blogspot.com/2008/09/aaea-opposes-expanded-offshore-oil.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">AAEA Opposes Expanded Offshore Oil Drilling</a>," African American Environmentalist Association blog, September 13, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_ref-12" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Dan Durett, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://aaeanewyork.blogspot.com/2008/09/riverkeeper-worked-to-exclude-african.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Riverkeeper Worked To Exclude African American Environmentalist Association</a>," African American Environmentalist Association - New York blog, September 12, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_ref-13" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.grist.org/comments/interactivist/2005/04/04/norris/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">We're Lovin' It!: Norris McDonald, president of the African American Environmentalist Association, answers Grist's questions</a>", Grist, April 4, 2005.</li>

<li id="cite_note-14" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_ref-14" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.grist.org/comments/interactivist/2005/04/04/norris/index1.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Black and Green and Read All Over Norris McDonald, president of the African American Environmentalist Association, answers readers' questions</a>", Grist, April 8, 2005.</li>

<li id="cite_note-15" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_ref-15" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "About Us," <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://groups.msn.com/aaea/aboutus.msnw" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">African American Environmentalist Association website</a>, accessed August 28, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-16" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_ref-16" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "About Us," <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://groups.msn.com/aaea/aboutus.msnw" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">African American Environmentalist Association website</a>, accessed August 28, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-17" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association#cite_ref-17" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> "About Us," <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://groups.msn.com/aaea/aboutus.msnw" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">African American Environmentalist Association website</a>, accessed August 28, 2007.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/0612ENERGYFORUMMACDONALD.PDF" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcaqaaaanowc2aaaatkleqvr4xmxkqqqamawf0x="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X" xssz9cskiyiifrfcjmmihmigbb5fqdcaqj4j46pzyluwe="XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe" cxz6ovbhts0sry2njp="cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp" xxxxzolu6euwaopx1vnwtbe6qqaaaaaelftksuqmcc="XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">A New Nuclear Age?</a>" Statement of Norris McDonald, President, African American Environmentalist Association, presented at the Governors’ Energy Forum, December 13, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nuclearspin.org/index.php/African_American_Environmentalist_Association" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">African American Environmentalist Association</a>", Nuclear Spin, accessed September 9, 2007.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Norris McDonald, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://aaenvironment.blogspot.com/2008/03/big-energy-companies-advertising-big.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Big Energy Companies Advertising Big Time In Newspapers</a>," African American Environmentalist Association blog, March 8, 2008.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Norris McDonald, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://aaenvironment.blogspot.com/2008/09/aaea-opposes-expanded-offshore-oil.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">AAEA Opposes Expanded Offshore Oil Drilling</a>," African American Environmentalist Association blog, September 13, 2008.</li>

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        3 July Revealed: the toxic trail of e-waste that leads from the US to Hong Kong. The acrid stench of overheating plastic fills the air as a grime-covered worker perched on a bench surrounded by old printers nonchalantly tosses a cigarette to the ground. It’s dirty work disembowelling the detritus of the digital economy. South China Morning Post, China.

        3 July Coal ash fears stoke fight over southeast Georgia landfill. Peggy Riggins, a retired high school teacher and counselor in Jesup, Georgia, is on a mission. On a hot, bright day in the southeast Georgia town, she’s going from business to business, asking people to join and donate to her cause: fighting a plan to bring thousands, maybe millions, of tons of coal ash to the local landfill. Atlanta WABE Public Radio, Georgia.

        2 July Anti-coal advocate shot dead in the Philippines. An anti-coal advocate was shot dead inside her videoke bar on Friday night, police said. Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippines.

        2 July Gulf Coast activists tell 'Big Green' to quit exploiting their disasters for financial gain“you can either be with us, or against us, or you can get out of the way.” In a new open letter, a group of 11 Gulf Coast environmental justice activists are demanding "respect and solidarity" from national "Big Green" organizations that they accuse of exploiting their local disasters for financial gain and treating poor people of color as "poster children for environmental injustice." Colorlines.

        2 July Between the dark seas and living hell. When the dark waters from the floods unleashed by cyclone Aila rushed into her house in the summer of 2009, Dipali made a desperate scramble with her five children inland, towards safety and survival. When the water subsided, her home had been washed away. Huffington Post.

        1 July GMO labels are about to hit Vermont shelves. The state has led the way in forcing labels for food derived from genetically modified organisms. MarketPlace.

        30 June The true cost of environmental gentrification. New research sheds light on the intersection between air quality, housing, and gentrification. Fusion.

        30 June Senate Democrats seek Hoosick Falls hearing. State Senate Democrats on Wednesday formally added their voices to a chorus of calls for a legislative hearing on the water contamination crisis that has ravaged Hoosick Falls. Albany Times Union, New York.

        30 June No takers so far on DEQ coal ash request. North Carolina’s environmental agency has yet to receive a response to its letter two weeks ago asking federal officials to screen the planned closure of a Wilmington coal ash basin for unfair treatment of minority and lower-income residents nearby. Greensboro News & Record, North Carolina.

        28 June Oakland council bans coal. During a raucous four-hour meeting Monday night, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to ban the storage and handling of coal and petroleum coke in the city. San Jose Mercury News, California.

        27 June Meet the new advocates for the West. A generation of young Western activists are using outdoor sports as a step towards conservation. High Country News.

        27 June Coal terminal plan pits jobs against environmental concerns. The promise of good, blue-collar jobs in a depressed area is running headlong into environmental sensitivities as officials in Northern California consider a plan to build a marine terminal that would serve as a gateway for Utah-mined coal heading to Asia. Associated Press.

        27 June What if I’m not white? This whirlwind period of my life has reinforced the idea that I don’t have to be white to be green. High Country News.

        26 June Amazon oil spill puts Peruvian communities at risk. A new oil spill from the pipeline that carries crude oil from the northern Peruvian Amazon across the Andes Mountains to the Pacific coast has raised fears of yet more pollution of the water and fish on which indigenous villages and riverside communities depend. Mongabay.

        24 June One year later, how a Pope's message on climate has resonated. Catholics worldwide are showing a new zeal for combatting climate change since Pope Francis highlighted the issue in 2015, experts say. Christian Science Monitor.

        24 June Native American tribes learn to fight climate change. Climate change has affected communities across the United States, but for Native Americans the effects hit closer to home. Boise KTVB TV, Idaho.

        23 June NRC promises vigilance at Diablo Canyon despite closure plans. Officials with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission Wednesday repeatedly assured the public that it will not lessen its oversight of Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant now that it is scheduled to close down in 2025. San Luis Obispo Tribune, California.

        23 June Clean water should be a basic human right. Why are we charging so much for it? Aging infrastructure + warming climate = rising prices. That’s the basic conclusion of a new report showing that clean water is getting more expensive in cities across the U.S. Grist.

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        6 July Canadian company turns air into fuel in climate change fight. It's capturing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere for fuel that planes and trucks could one day use. Huffington Post.

        6 July ‘Living shorelines’ will get fast track to combat sea level rise. As sea levels rise along U.S. coasts, it may soon get easier to obtain federal permits to build what are known as “living shorelines,” natural or nature-based structures designed to protect against extreme storms and flooding even as they protect habitat. ClimateWire.

        6 July Should the United States save Tangier Island from oblivion? It’s the kind of choice that climate change will be forcing over and over. New York Times.

        6 July Can New York be saved in the era of global warming? Hurricane Sandy did not just reveal how vulnerable New York is to a powerful storm, but it also gave a preview of what the city faces over the next century, when sea levels are projected to rise five, six, seven feet or more. Rolling Stone.

        6 July California redwoods store more carbon than any other forests in the world, study finds. California's ancient redwood forests aren't just majestic and among the oldest living things on Earth — a new study finds they are a particularly potent weapon against global warming. San Jose Mercury News, California.

        6 July It isn't easy being green - just ask those who are. How small must a climate scientist's carbon footprint be? How about a celebrity who calls for environmental protection? Or a politician? ClimateWire.

        6 July Court decision on climate plan jolts carbon prices. A temporary halt to the federal government’s plan to cut electric power plant emissions has caused carbon prices in the Northeast’s only cap-and-trade program to plummet, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Climate Central.

        6 July At a Cape Cod landmark, a strategic retreat from the ocean. At Herring Cove Beach, facing an erosion problem as many other coastal areas are, a damaged parking lot is being replaced with one farther back. New York Times.

        6 July US leads the world in oil reserves. The United States tops the globe in crude oil reserves, according to an Oslo, Norway-based industry research group. EnergyWire.

        6 July As temperatures climb across the country, workers will suffer. Temperatures in the 100s may be unusual, but heat-induced illness and death at U.S. job sites are not. In These Times.

        6 July New research: Climate may be more sensitive and situation more dire. When comparing apples to apples, a new study finds energy budget climate sensitivity estimates consistent with climate models. The Guardian.

        6 July This new Antarctica study is bad news for climate change doubters. New research on Antarctic sea ice undermines a favorite climate skeptic talking point. Washington Post.

        6 July Climate change: How Victoria trumped New South Wales in the great renewable energy race. Two years ago Rob Stokes, the then environment minister for New South Wales, promised that his state could become Australia’s answer to California in the clean energy industry. It was a bold vision, and a laudable one, but it didn’t turn out that way. The Guardian.

        6 July Ten things New Zealand can learn about climate change. Climate change is already redefining coastlines and the weather here in New Zealand and around the world. How will it affect us and what can we do about it? New Zealand Herald.

        6 July When it comes to rising sea levels, Coronado is treading water. Coronado’s city leadership acknowledges it could be facing dire circumstances. It also acknowledges that thus far, it has taken no steps to plan for such outcomes. Voice of San Diego, California.

        6 July Clear and present danger: Rapidly warming Arctic threatens Cold War radar sites. Erosion driven by climate change is happening decades sooner than the military predicted, and the plan now is to spend tens of millions of dollars to fortify in place. Alaska Public Radio Network.

        6 July Ocean acidification will make it hard for mussels to hang on experiments suggest. For a seafood lover, the strong, stretchy threads that mussels use to cling to rocks are a nuisance to be discarded. But for the mussel, they're a lifeline and new research shows they're vulnerable to warmer and more acidic waters. CBC Canada.

        6 July Climate change, not humans, killed off megafauna. Why did the giant kangaroos and rhino-sized wombats that once roamed Australia die out? Scientists agree there are two contenders: climate change and humans. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia.

        6 July Miami-Dade could ask developers to start paying for climate change costs. Miami-Dade commissioners have proposed a novel solution: Creating new "impact fees" that would require developers to basically pay for their portion of the burden of sea-level rise related costs. Miami New Times, Florida.

        6 July A flagship “clean coal” plant is a flailing mess. Does that mean the technology is doomed? The Kemper project was supposed to be a lifeline for coal in a low-carbon world. It's now a total fiasco. Vox.

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border-spacing: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr style="background-color: transparent;"><th class="item-key" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 5px 0px 0px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 1.5em; width: 105px;">Gender</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 0.2em 0px 0px; vertical-align: top; margin: 0px;">MALE</td></tr><tr><th class="item-key" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 5px 0px 0px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 1.5em; width: 105px;">Industry</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 0.2em 0px 0px; vertical-align: top; margin: 0px;">Environment</td></tr><tr style="background-color: transparent;"><th class="item-key" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 5px 0px 0px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 1.5em; width: 105px;">Occupation</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 0.2em 0px 0px; vertical-align: top; margin: 0px;">Environmentalist</td></tr><tr><th class="item-key" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 5px 0px 0px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 1.5em; width: 105px;">Location</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 0.2em 0px 0px; vertical-align: top; margin: 0px;">Washington, DC, United States</td></tr><tr style="background-color: transparent;"><th class="item-key" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 5px 0px 0px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 1.5em; width: 105px;">Links</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 0.2em 0px 0px; vertical-align: top; margin: 0px;"><a class="audioclip sound" href="http://cfece.org/Music/PeopleLaughAtTheDevil.mp3" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Audio Clip</a>, <a class="wishlist" href="http://aaea-la.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Wishlist</a></td></tr><tr><th class="item-key" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 5px 0px 0px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 1.5em; width: 105px;">Introduction</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 0.2em 0px 0px; vertical-align: top; margin: 0px;">I'm okay. Really.</td></tr><tr style="background-color: transparent;"><th class="item-key" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 5px 0px 0px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 1.5em; width: 105px;">Interests</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 0.2em 0px 0px; vertical-align: top; margin: 0px;">Internet, golf, tennis, boating, helicopters, guitar, backgammon, subatomic physics, religion, reading everything, swimming, diving</td></tr><tr><th class="item-key" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 5px 0px 0px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 1.5em; width: 105px;">Favorite Movies</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 0.2em 0px 0px; vertical-align: top; margin: 0px;">The Matrix (Trilogy), It's A Wonderful Life, Notting Hill, Slaughterhouse Five, Crash</td></tr><tr style="background-color: transparent;"><th class="item-key" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 5px 0px 0px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 1.5em; width: 105px;">Favorite Music</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 0.2em 0px 0px; vertical-align: top; margin: 0px;">Funk Rock</td></tr><tr><th class="item-key" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); margin: 5px 0px 0px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 1.5em; width: 105px;">Favorite Books</th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 0.2em 0px 0px; vertical-align: top; margin: 0px;">The Bible, The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood, The Tao of Physics, Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun, Carlos Castaneda Books, Bluebells & Nuclear Energy</td></tr></tbody></table></div>

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