Discuss future strategy
Clean air supporters
gather at symposium
By KIRK KNIGHTON
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Ronald Reagan and James Watt might be
the best thing that ever happened to the envir
onmental movement, according to some of the
charged-up people at Saturday's Clean Air
Symposium
The reason the Reagan Administration
wants to substantially weaken the Clean Air
Act of 1977 — among other environmental
legislation — and they're making so much ado
about it that environmentalists all across the
country are waking up from the complacency
of the Carter years and arming themselves for
battle
The symposium — a day-long affair held in
the EMU — drew a large number of people to
discuss just what the administration intends to
do to the Act, and what citizens can do to keep
clean air laws intact
The symposium featured workshops and
speakers from diverse backgrounds and was
sponsored by such organizations as the
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality,
the League of Women Voters of Oregon, the
Oregon Lung Association, and several others
John Bonine. co-director of the University s
Environmental Law Clinic, provided back
ground material concerning the Act as he
explained why the administration wants to do
away with much of it
‘What Reagan wants to do is
turn the clock back to the
1950s, when there were no
national standards’
"Let's face it," Bonine said, the Clean Air
Act started out as a fairly easy-to-read piece of
legislation of about 40 pages Since then it has
grown to 150 pages, and the result is that it has
become rather confusing, convoluted and
confounding.”
Bonine said he agreed with some of the
legislators currently working to trim the Act
that the law ought to be simplified But the
administration wants to simplify it by way of
weakening it. he said
Bonnie said he'd like to see it simplified in
order to be more effective
He pointed out that Environmental Protec
tion Agency Administrator Anne Gorsuch —
whom he referred to as a protege of James
Watt — already has abolished the agency’s
enforcement division, and has fired one-third
of the entire EPA staff
The Clean Air Act is first and
foremost a public health law
— we cannot treat it lightly’
The administration would like to see the
issue of clean air dealt with on a local level,
Bonine said
This would "force states to choose between
clean air and a healthy economy,” he said
' What Reagan wants is to turn the clocks
back to the 1950s, when there were no national
standards for air quality, no enforcement of
regulations, and no deadlines industries had to
meet to clean up their act "
Dan Saltzman, environmental aid to Con
gressman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said the ad
ministration is attempting to portray the Act as
yet another needless government regula
tion ”
"The fact, though, is that the Clean Air Act is
first and foremost a public health law — we
cannot treat it lightly," Saltzman said
He said that if Congress voted on the issue
right now they would probably approve the
proposed cuts in the Act
"But the vote would be close," he added
And this is why our strategy right now is to
keep the thing from being voted on, until we've
had more debates and committee meetings on
the issue "
Saltzman urged people to write Wyden — the
only Oregon representative on a subcommittee
involved with the Clean Air Act
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Library celebrates
golden anniversary
After confronting more than a routine share of shoestring
budgets, reduced acquisitions and some hungry bookworms,
University library officials could use some diversion.
The coming year may provide that diversion as the library
celebrates its 100th anniversary. The golden anniversary festivities
will coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Eugene Public Library.
In honor of the joint celebration, the public is invited to attend a
revival of the University Library Lecture Forum Series, which thrived
from 1949-1969. The year-long series of free lectures is sponsored
by the University Library Centennial Project Committee, aided by a
grant from the Oregon Committee for the Humanities, an affiliate of
the National Endowment for the Humanities.
A lecture tonight by Richard Brown, professor of Northwest
and Pacific History, will usher in the lecture series. Brown will speak
on Henry Villard and the University Library" at 7:30 p.m in
Gerlinger Lounge.
Henry Villard was a German immigrant, turned wealthy railroad
magnate, who built the first railroad to link the Pacific Northwest
with the rest of the United States.
Villard generously contributed the proceeds of his railroad
bonds to several Northwest colleges, paying particular attention to
the University in the late 1800s. In 1881, Villard’s first gift was $1 000
worth of books donated to start a library.
In early April, a reception introducing the library’s new "Trea
sures Exhibit will be held, followed later in the month by the
celebration's centerpiece address by Alvin Josephy, currently with
the Museum of the American Indian and former editor of American
Heritage magazine Josephy will speak on "Native Americans and
White Settlers in the 19th Century.”
For information about the Centennial celebration, contact the
Centennial Project Committee Chairman, Perry Morrison at the
University library, 686-3056
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