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Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:22:18 -0500
From: "CLEAR View Mailing List"
CLEAR Unveils New Research Tool on the World Wide Web
December 16, 1996
contact: Dan Barry -- 202-667-6982 -- dan@ewg.org Mike Shelhamer -- 202-667-6982 -- mike@ewg.org
The Clearinghouse on Environmental Research and Advocacy, a Washington DC-based non-profit that has monitored and reported on the anti-environmental movement since 1993, today unveiled the latest version of its world wide web page on the internet. CLEAR is a project of the Environmental Working Group, a policy and research organization that has made ground-breaking use of the internet to provide vital information to environmental activists and concerned individuals.
The latest upgrade of the CLEAR web page (http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/clear/clear.html) makes an enormous amount of information on the anti-environmental "wise use" movement and its allies available to anyone with access to the world wide web, including information on "wise use" funding and personnel.
WebGuide, an online e-zine that covers web pages of note, includes a favorable review of the new version of CLEAR's page in Spotlight section of their December 16 issue. (http://www.netguide.com/server-java/NGPage/Spotlight?day=12_16_96&which=1).
"By posting this addition to its already extensive Web site, CLEAR has taken opposition research and monitoring to a new level," writes Ezra Gale of NetGuide. Ron Arnold took another view of CLEAR's efforts, saying "All they're doing is making us famous."
In addition to the searchable databases of "wise use" groups by state, their staff and board memberships, and funding sources, the CLEAR page includes all past issues of A CLEAR View, CLEAR's semi-monthly bulletin on the "wise use" movement. The CLEAR web page also lists numerous other sources of expert information on the wise use movement.
The critical advancement made by the new version of the CLEAR web page is the ability to explore the structure of the anti-environmental movement by following links in the personnel and funding data sets. By presenting this information in a cross-linked fashion, researchers can explore for themselves the network of shared personnel and funding that form the basis of the broad anti-environmental movement.
For instance, by investigating the board listings for the National Wilderness Institute, a Washington, DC-based group dedicated to the weakening of the Endangered Species Act, one will discover that NWI Board Advisor and former Senator Steve Symms serves on the boards of six other organizations engaged in anti-environmental activities. Users of the CLEAR web page can use the links provided for all of these organizations to find out more about them.
Similarly, by following the funding links within the information page on Communities for A Great Northwest, a Montana-based "wise use" group, one will see that CGNW receives funding from ASARCO, Inc., a major mining corporation. ASARCO also funds the American Land Rights Association, the American Legislative Exchange Council, the Atlantic Legal Foundation, the Clean Water Industry Coalition, and People for the West!, all organizations that are active in the effort to weaken or eliminate environmental protections.
The CLEAR database is "designed in a circular fashion so you can keep following links to corporations and individuals and groups," says Dan Barry, CLEAR Director. "Many environmental activists have a narrow view of the anti-environmental movement. This is a much more developed and complicated movement than what activists believe it to be."
Mike Shelhamer, CLEAR Research Assistant, added "This database, the result of over a years worth of intensive research and database-building, gives people access to detailed information on the structure of the anti-environmental movement."
For more information, contact CLEAR.
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Daniel Barry, Director CLEAR Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research 1718 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20009 tel. 202-667-6982 = fax 202-232-2592 = e-mail: clear@ewg.org
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CLEAR provides environmental advocates and concerned citizens with information to understand and counter misinformation about environmental policy and science and the impacts of environmental law on the economy and private property.
To subscribe to our periodic bulletin on the "wise use" movement (24 times
per year), send a message to
Visit our WorldWide Web site at http://www.ewg.org
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