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[David Bedell]

Sierra Club endorses Burton 
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 13:48:30 +0000
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Sierra Club endorses Burton

The Redding Pilot, October 28, 2004

The Connecticut Chapter of the Sierra Club has announced its endorsement of 
Nancy Burton’s candidacy for the office of State Representative, her 
campaign has announced.  The organization selected Ms. Burton as one of 19 
candidates for the state House of Representatives it has endorsed in the 
2004 election campaign.

“The election of 2004 is in many ways the most significant election in the 
recent history of our democracy both on the state and national levels,” the 
Connecticut chapter stated in its announcement of endorsements.

“The endorsement process of the Connecticut Chapter of the Sierra Club has 
accordingly attempted to reflect our responsibility to endorse candidates 
for public office that we believe will truly champion the environmental 
issues that our organization, by consensus, represents,” the statement read.

The Sierra Club Connecticut Chapter applied the following criteria for 
endorsement: “1) the candidate’s overall environmental record and platform, 
as measured by their history of public service, public statements, responses 
to Club questionnaires; (2) the candidate’s performance on environmental 
issues as an incumbent, if the candidate is an incumbent running for 
reelection; and (3) the candidate’s prospect of winning the election, or at 
least mounting a credible campaign.”

The Sierra Club is the nation’s oldest, largest and most influential 
grass-roots environmental organization with 700,000 members nationwide.

“I am deeply honored to win the endorsement of the Connecticut Chapter of 
the Sierra Club, an organization I respect for its commitment to 
environmental activism,” Ms. Burton said.  “I have devoted a career in 
public interest law to protecting the environment,” she added.

“I agree with the Sierra Club that clean energy programs create jobs and 
reduce costs for consumers,” Ms. Burton said.  “We can jump-start the 
Connecticut economy by promoting new technologies to achieve these clean-air 
objectives.”  Ms. Burton said she would help forge new coalitions in 
Hartford "to fight for common-sense solutions.”

As an environmental attorney, Ms. Burton said she has waged many successful 
campaigns and legal actions which have resulted in land preservation and 
better protections of the air and water.  She helped save the scenic 
Horsebarn Hill at the University of Connecticut Mansfield campus from a 
corporate development in a sensitive watershed area.  Ms. Burton said she 
also brought an action that exposed the Georgetown sewage treatment plant as 
causing pollution of the Norwalk River above levels that existed prior to 
installation of the plant.

During the past five years, Burton has spearheaded efforts in the state to 
shut the Millstone Nuclear Power Plant in Waterford and replace it with 
clean renewable energy sources. She won a week-long injunction that kept 
Millstone Unit 2 closed during the spring spawning season of an indigenous 
fish species. A listing of some of Ms. Burton’s accomplishments appears at 
www.voteburton.org.  Ms. Burton is challenging Republican incumbent John 
Stripp in the race to represent the 135th District, which includes Redding, 
Weston and Easton.

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