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April 22, 2004

Earth Day

It's Earth Day today. Dennis Hayes, the national coordinator of the first Earth Day in 1970 and head of the first International Earth Day in 1990, discusses reclaiming the vision of the first Earth Day in today's Seattle Times.

The impact of that first Earth Day was astonishing. In rapid succession, and with huge majorities, Congress passed the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act and Superfund. Our anti-environment president, Richard Nixon, felt compelled to create the Environmental Protection Agency.

In truth, the environmental movement has been playing defense for the past three years, and it has been losing more often than it has been winning.

We can and must reclaim that vision. By flexing our collective political muscle we can once again work together to fulfill that original promise to change the world. As it did 34 years ago, Earth Day can again provide common ground for all of us and find common cause with the people who live and work in those communities most at risk.

Posted by linda at April 22, 2004 10:50 AM