For Immediate Release: January 25, 2001

SAN FRANCISCO – President George W. Bush has named three environmental experts associated with the California-based Pacific Research Institute (PRI) to top positions in his Cabinet and Transition Advisory Teams: Gale Norton, nominee for Secretary of Interior; Steven Hayward, Transition Advisory Team for the Environmental Protection Agency; and Terry Anderson, Transition Advisory Team for the Dept. of the Interior.

á Gale Norton, nominee for Secretary of the Interior, was a fellow and member of PRI’s Center for Applied Jurisprudence. Norton participated in a property rights task force that produced PRI’s 1993 book Grand Theft and Petit Larceny: Property Rights in America, by Mark L. Pollot. In 1997, in Tempe, Arizona, Ms. Norton gave the keynote address, "Regaining the Initiative on Environmental Issues: An Elected Official’s Perspective," at PRI’s conference "Green Grassroots: Tackling Environmental Issues at the Local Level."

á Dr. Steven Hayward, a senior fellow and director of PRI’s Center for Environmental and Regulatory Reform, was named to the Transition Advisory Team for the Environmental Protection Agency. Hayward co-authors PRI’s Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, released each year on Earth Day. He is a nationally- recognized expert on urban sprawl and other key environmental issues.

á Dr. Terry Anderson was named to the Transition Advisory Team for the Dept. of the Interior. Anderson is executive director of the Political Economy Research Center in Bozeman, Montana, and a senior fellow in environmental studies at the Pacific Research Institute. Anderson is the author or editor of 21 books, including PRI’s seminal work Free Market Environmentalism, which introduced the now-popular concept of using markets and property rights to manage natural resources.

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