Action needed to save N.C. Office of Environmental Education

Citing the state budget crisis, Gov. Beverly Perdue and the legislature have proposed eliminating the state Office of Environmental Education. A division of the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, OEE serves as a central source of environmental education information for schools, universities, citizen groups, businesses and libraries.

Adam Migliore Meyer of Raleigh's Richland Initiative points out that OEE also supports environmental education centers including Umstead State Park and the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences' Prairie Ridge Ecostation for Wildlife and Learning.

"It is hard to imagine our state not even having an office to coordinate environmental education efforts with the emergence of green jobs and renewable energies," Migliore Meyer said in an alert letting supporters know about the planned cuts.

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