Press Conference Re: Govt. Demand for Green Delaware Membership List

[Green Delaware <amuller@dca.net>]

                                                      Release from Green Delaware
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:	Today's date:	December 2, 1997
  
  PRESS CONFERENCE:	December 4, 1997, 1100 am
  			"Workshop" room, 1st floor, City-County 					Building, Wilmington Delaware
  
  Green Delaware will detail harassment of the group by the administration of
  Del. Gov. Tom Carper.  dministration.  Green Delaware and other citizen
  groups will call for the ouster of a top Carper environmental official.
  	
  CARPER ADMINISTRATION MAKES UNPRECEDENTED DEMAND THAT
   GREEN DELAWARE DISCLOSE THE NAMES OF ALL ITS MEMBERS.
  
  ADMINISTRATION SAYS THAT OTHERWISE GREEN DELAWARE WILL
   NOT BE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN PUBLIC HEARINGS.
  
  GREEN DELAWARE REFUSES
  
  OTHER CITIZEN GROUPS RALLY BEHIND FREEDOM OF SPEECH
  
  Quote from Alan Muller, Coordinator of Green Delaware:
  
  "Delaware's waters are polluted from one end of the state to the other with
  toxic chemicals, runoff, and raw sewage. As Green Delaware
  has fought against water pollution, the Delaware Division of
  Water Resources has become more and more hostile to US, while taking step
  after step to accommodate water polluters." 
  
  "We have now received two written demands for our membership list.  Of
  course we have said 'no.'"
  
  "The Delaware Division of Water Resources should be going after water
  polluters, not environmentalists."
  
  Quote from Jacob Kreshtool, member of the Green Delaware Steering Committee,
  and head of Del. Citizens for Clean Air:
  
  "Like diapers, environmental officials need changing every so often, and
  for much the same reason."
  
  Environmental decisions should be decided on their merits, and not on the
  identity of  citizens, nor on their personalities, nor on their numbers, nor on
   their wealth."
  
  "This demand is guaranteed to chill public participation"
  
  For more information contact: 	Alan Muller 	302.834.3466
  		                   Jake Kreshtool	302.764-3619
  					  	
  
  (copies of the letters demanding members names are available from Alan
  Muller)    
  
  
  
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