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"Environmental" Cabinet Officials Whitman, Norton, Veneman Will Visit Maryland School for Earth Day Observance

Release Date: 4/20/2001
Contact Information: Liz Ferry, (215) 814-2909 & David Sternberg, (215) 814-5548

Liz Ferry, (215) 814-2909 & David Sternberg, (215) 814-5548

PHILADELPHIA – EPA Administrator Christie Whitman will join Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman and Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton in an Earth Day observance on Monday, April 23 at the Odenton Elementary School in Odenton, Maryland.

Environmental protection is a key responsibility for all three top-ranking federal officials, who are making their first joint public appearance in the Bush Administration. U.S. Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest will also participate in the day’s events.

They will tour the EPA mobile environmental science lab and review experiments along with about 30 elementary school students. The experiments will focus on recycling, how EPA finds contaminants in soil, and the effects of farming on watersheds.

While visiting Odenton Elementary School, the three cabinet members will plant an evergreen tree, which the Interior Department obtained from a former mining site to symbolize the value of reclamation.

The tour of the lab will begin at 11 a.m. The press is invited to attend, and photo opportunities will be available. There will be a media availability session immediately following the tree planting. The entire event will last one hour.

DIRECTIONS: Baltimore-Washington Parkway (I-295) to Route 175 exit at Fort Meade. Follow Route 175 six miles east, then bear right at light on Route 170 after railroad tracks.
At next intersection, turn left onto Odenton Road. School is 500 yards ahead on the right at 1290 Odenton Road.

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