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Environment
Needs Clinton
To the Editor:
As we move closer to another election, I'm thinking a lot about issues that are particularly important to Rappahannock County. This leads naturally to environmental issues. Looking up at Skyline Drive this past weekend, it was tempting to think our environment is secure and clean and not really a problem at all. But I am quickly reminded of all the days we can't even see Skyline Drive, when the mountains are buried in a deep smog generated hundreds of miles away in the Ohio Valley. The reality is that we still have a long way to go.
In 1992, when Bill Clinton entered the White House, it looked like we had a President who would not only be friendly toward environmental issues but who actually cared about the envi-* ronment. Vice President Gore had just published his book, Earth in the Balance, that talked about the environment in strategic terms, and argued ' that consideration of the environment should play an important role in the development of technology and government policy and legislation. But it has been an uphill battle.
The easiest case to make for Clinton's environmental record would be to discuss Dole's record, one of the worst in Congress, including his serving as point man for Republican efforts to weaken the Clean Air Act in 1990. But in the spirit of Clinton's desire to make this a positive campaign, it is probably more appropriate
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