[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, CHEMWEAPONS: "[American University] lobbied Congress for Spring Valley [DC] cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

AU lobbied Congress for Spring Valley cleanup

By Alex Greco
American University Eagle (DC)
May 1, 2012

AU hired a lobbying firm to ensure the Army Corps of Engineers’  
Spring Valley project would remain a priority of the U.S. government  
and maintain adequate funding.

The project consists of the search and removal of World War I  
munitions on AU-owned property.

"With no voting representation in Congress [Eleanor Holmes Norton’s  
D.C. delegate status excepted]," Camille Lepre said, assistant vice  
president for communications & media, in an email, "it was important  
that AU find elected officials who were sympathetic to our concern  
that the project funds not be diverted to another Corps projects,  
which did have a Congressman/woman advocating for it."
...

For the entire article, see
http://www.theeagleonline.com/news/story/au-lobbied-congress-for- 
spring-valley-cleanup/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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