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Out in Front on 'Big Science'

From the 1960s to 1999

On the House science committee for over 30 years George Brown led an array of science efforts, including one that greens look to as prescient -- he drafted the first national legislation that identified climate change risks. His voice and day-to-day work in Congress was at the front of the environmental movement.

Federal Climate Program Act

Rep. Brown's profound accomplishments are especially missed now in the current era as anti-science positioning in the U.S. Congress threatens national and global security...

Congressman George E. Brown, Voice of Earth Science and Decades of Leadership on Congressional Committees Out in Front of Climate Action

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National Climate Program Act, 1978 / PDF

The first federal program established to act upon, and initiate study and assess scientifically the issues and risks of human-caused climate change.

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George Brown on the 'Big Picture'

Congressional Speech, 1969, Can Our Environment Be Saved

Hands On Activism in Building a Foundation of Green/Environmental Protections

Memories of Congressman Brown, the first Earth Day, and strategy the led to the 'Decade of the Environment'

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