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Date: Oct. 11, 1996
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Gregory Wetstone to Speak on Politics and the Environment
Princeton, N.J.--Gregory S. Wetstone, legislative director of the National Resources Defense Council (nrdc), will give a lecture titled "Environment and the 104th Congress: Policy and Politics" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Monday, October 21, in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1, at 4:30 p.m.
At the nrdc, Wetstone is responsible for coordinating its legislative activities, including campaign planning and management, Congressional advocacy, grassroots efforts, and outreach. His chief objective, he stated upon taking on the role of legislative director in 1994 is to make sure that Congress "remains responsive to Americans' strong commitment to environmental protection. I can think of no better place to do that than at nrdc."
Previously, Wetstone was chief counsel for environment for the Health and Environment Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives. He played a central role in a successful eight-year campaign to enact the Clean Air Act Amendments in 1990, conducted groundbreaking investigations of the White House Council on Competitiveness (1990 92) and of the tobacco industry (1992 94), and directed drafting and staff efforts in support of the Global Climate Protection Act of 1992. He also provided staff leadership in successful opposition to efforts in the 103d Congress (1992 94) to weaken major environmental laws, including legislation to curtail "unfunded mandates."
Wetstone also is the author of a number of studies on the environment, including Acid Rain in Europe and North America (1983). For Congress's Office of Technology Assessment, he wrote a leading study of approaches for controlling international air pollution, Air Pollution Across National Boundaries (1982); and the first in-depth analysis of means to control long-range air pollution, Institutional Aspects of Transported Pollutants (1980). He is also a coauthor and editor of a reference manual on pollution control law, Air and Water Pollution Law (1979).
His lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.