[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 148 (Wednesday, September 17, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S8938]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              PHILIP CLAPP

  Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, I wish to speak very briefly to express 
my sadness on the death of Philip Clapp, who was the president and 
chief executive officer of the National Environmental Trust, from its 
founding in 1994 until it merged with the Pew Charitable Trusts this 
year, and who served as the deputy managing director of the 
Environmental Group of the Pew Charitable Trusts.
  There are few of us in the Senate who have not had contact with 
Philip and seen the effectiveness of his advocacy on environmental and 
energy issues. He formerly served on Tim Wirth's staff when Tim served 
as a colleague of ours in the House of Representatives.
  Under his guidance, the National Environmental Trust was one of the 
major nongovernmental organizations that contributed to international 
summits and agreements on climate change-related issues.
  I wish to express my condolences to his family and to his many 
colleagues here and abroad who will greatly miss him and his leadership 
on these issues.

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