Pryor's Environmental Record Under Fire in New Radio Ads
Feature Story by civilrights.org staff - 7/30/2003
Earthjustice has launched a radio advertising campaign against William H. Pryor's nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Which blasts the controversial nominee's record as Attorney General of Alabama. The spots are airing in Pennsylvania, Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.Pryor is a pioneer of the "states' rights" movement, often opposing federal legislation protecting the environment and individuals' civil rights.
The nominee once claimed that the "EPA invaded the province of the States" through the Clean Air Act, which prevented wanton pollution from coal-burning power plants and oil refineries.
He also represented the only state to insist key provisions of the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act were unconstitutional.
Earthjustice Senior Legislative Counsel Glenn Sugameli points to Pryor's record as an indication "he would bring to the bench an activism that could seriously undermine decades of established federal environmental safeguards for ... environmental threats to the health of minority and other communities."
The new ads urge listeners to call their U.S. Senators and ask them to block Pryor's nomination.
