spokesman with the
Adirondack Council, an environmental group that opposes the legislation.
The
Adirondack Council established the Clarence Petty Internship Program to make sure that Clarence's activism and passion for the Adirondacks is passed on to the next generation.
Prior to joining CLF, Burke served as a Vermont State Representative, Secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources and Executive Director of the
Adirondack Council.
For its efforts, the
Adirondack Council was promptly named the "Clean Air Villain of the Month" in April 2002 by the Clean Air Trust, a hall of shame award ordinarily bestowed on big polluters and their industry-friendly lawmakers.
In preparation for the promulgation of its new acid rain program, the EPA established an advisory committee and invited the
Adirondack Council to participate.
The sky is not a sponge it does not squeeze out and absorb things evenly over its entire surface," says John Sheehan, a coordinator of the
Adirondack Council, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group.
The
Adirondack Council, an Albany-based environmental group, and the Natural Resources Defense Council are suing the EPA to set standards dictating how much sulfur dioxide can fall on specific regions, not just a cap for the whole nation.
They came from the Saranac Lake Free Library's Adirondack Room, the Adirondack Museum, the
Adirondack Council, Stephen Scholle, Roger Marshall and Simone Kincaid.
Brian Houseal of The
Adirondack Council told AP that having the fake tree towering above Signal Knob was akin to "painting a beard and mustache on the Mona Lisa.
The
Adirondack Council is pushing the state to create a 409,000-acre Bob Marshall Great Wilderness near Cranberry Lake in the western Adirondacks.
The measure was supported by a coalition of groups that included The Nature Conservancy, The Conservation Council, Ducks Unlimited, New York State Trappers, Citizens Campaign,
Adirondack Council and New York State League of Conservation Voters.
