Really nice current TIME article on the Heinz awards, with some very nice comments on John Heinz

[karynnj]

The Heinz Awards offer much-needed recognition—and cash—to those toiling away in toxicology, climate science or oceanography. But the announcement caught my eye for another reason. The late Sen. John Heinz—a Pittsburgh native who was born into the Heinz company fortune—built his political reputation in part on his passion for the environment. The John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Pennsylvania—which preserves the state's largest freshwater tidal marsh—is named for him. He was the author of the Pennsylvania Wilderness Act, and helped craft the Superfund and Clean Water Act programs in Congress. He fought deforestation in the Amazon. And he was a Republican.

Read more: http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2010/09/21/honoring-green-heroes%E2%80%94and-a-republican-environmentalist/#ixzz10vqDtmdx

The article then makes the sad point that not a single Republican was willing to help on climate change.