The Center for Environment, Commerce and Energy (Center) is a private, public interest group focusing on environmental issues. Its stated aims include protecting the environment, enhancing human, animal and plant ecologies, promoting the efficient use of natural resources and increasing participation in the environmental movement.
The African American Environmentalist Association (AAEA) is the outreach arm of the Center.
The Center describes itself as "aggressively non-partisan". It has supported
Republican policy positions, and particularly those of President George W. Bush on such issues as
stem cell research
In multicellular organisms, stem cells are undifferentiated or partially differentiated cells that can change into various types of cells and proliferate indefinitely to produce more of the same stem cell. They are the earliest type of cell ...
and
nuclear power
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, but has also expressed support for Democrats including
Joseph Lieberman
Joseph Isadore Lieberman (; February 24, 1942 – March 27, 2024) was an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, he was its nomine ...
.
The Center is listed as a member of the Nuclear Fuels Reprocessing Coalition and Norris McDonald is its Co-Chairman. AAEA is listed as a member of the New York Affordable Reliable Electricity Alliance
AAEA maintains the Environmental Justice Blo
Criticism
Leadership
The group was founded by Norris McDonald who remains its president.
External links
Center for Environment, Commerce & EnergyAfrican American Environmentalist Association
Environmental organizations based in the United States
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