SierraScape June - July 2003
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Eric Uram, Midwest Regional Representative will present on "Breathing Easy in These Times" a look at current efforts to address our country's air pollution and energy issues. The Bush administration's EPA has proposed major changes to energy and air policy. How are these changes being made? What does this mean for folks in the St. Louis area? Uram will present on these issues to the Eastern Missouri Group at the Missouri Botanical Garden in the Beaumont Room on Thursday evening, June 26 from 7:30-9:00 pm.

Eric Uram is a 5-year veteran of the Sierra Club's Midwest Office where he has worked extensively on toxics issues relating to fish advisories and human/environmental health. Uram has been staff liaison to the Midwest Regional Conservation Committee's "Clean-up Dirty Coal Campaign" over the last two years which has been working to help local activists fight new, and clean up existing, coal-fired power plants. In addition to this regional work, Uram is also assisting National Sierra Club in helping prevent any environmental rollbacks by the Bush administration. These have included weakening New Source Review as well as promoting coal as a source of clean energy. Eric hails from Waukegan, IL but now calls the Midwest home and feels comfortable with a fishing rod in a canoe in any waters thereabouts.