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Media Advisory: Mike McCormack On Energy Resources

Peer-Reviewed Publication

American Chemical Society

Former Chair Of Congressional Subcommittee On Energy, Research And Production Offers New Plan To Divert Energy Crisis

As the demand for electricity in the United States continues to grow, electric utility companies are using their reserves rather than building needed new facilities, deepening the potential for brownouts and blackouts and threatening the electricity supply for industrial and residential use, according to Mike McCormack, director of the Institute for Science and Society in Washington state, and a former U.S. Congressman. McCormack will address the national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, on the ramifications for the U.S. economy, national security and daily lifestyle as world production of conventional oil and natural gas peak. McCormack will also discuss why America may not be able to meet its obligation under the Kyoto Treaty to reduce gas emissions to 1990 levels and he will discuss the limitations of implementing solar and wind energy resources.

McCormack is the 1999 recipient of the Charles Lathrop Parsons Award which recognizes outstanding public service by a member of the American Chemical Society.

What: Charles Lathrop Parsons Award address entitled, "21st Century Energy Resources & the Need for Our Children to Avoid Crisis in Electricity and Transportation"

When: Saturday, March 20, 1999 8:30 p.m.

Where: American Chemical Society Board of Directors dinner Anaheim Marriott, Grand Ballroom E

Speaker: Mike McCormack Director, Institute for Science and Society

Note to reporters: To attend the award address or to arrange an interview, please call the American Chemical Society press office at 202-872-6042 before March 18 or in Anaheim at 714-740-4562, March 18-25.

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