Four lawmakers were recognized for environmental efforts Wednesday.
House Speaker Joe Hackney, Sen. Janet Cowell, and Reps. Pricey Harrison and Carolyn Justice were honored by the Conservation Council of North Carolina at its first "Green Tie" dinner.
Hackney was given the Jane Sharp lifetime award for leading a state ban on phostpates in the mid 1980s and sponsoring the Clean Water Act of 1999.
Cowell, a Raleigh Democrat, was honored as "Senator of the Year" and Harrison, a Greensboro Democrat, was "Representative of the Year."
Justice, a Hampstead Republican, was recognized as a "Defender of the Environment" for a bill to increase environmental standards on hog farms.
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Re: Green Tie awards
May 24, 2007 - 4:37pm — danbesseJoe and the other legislative honorees fully deserved the recognition for their outstanding work in our legislature on behalf of environmental stewardship in North Carolina.
In addition, there could be no one more deserving of having the award named after her than Jane Sharp, the "godmother" of North Carolina's citizen environmental stewardship movement. I was delighted to have the chance to help honor Jane with some brief recollections of her 35-plus years of work for CCNC. She helped nuture today's citizen environmental leaders in our state.
Dan Besse