Acknowledgments

Although space does not permit listing the individual names of all the people who contributed to the compilation of this study, we wish to thank the many volunteers who collectively spent hundreds of hours monitoring, record-gathering, researching, and meticulously reviewing information and data at their frequent and lengthy meetings. We also wish to thank:

• The staff and personnel of government offices who provided bill analyses, records, and other data used in this study.
• The many scientists and specialists whose environmental expertise provided essential criteria for review of legislation.
• The leadership and staff of numerous environmental and public interest organizations who provided additional, significant legislation evaluation.
• The members of the FLCV Board of Directors, who provided an additional level of review of information and data.
• Individuals and organizations whose financial contributions made this publication possible.

Special Thanks

Nancy Brown, Dan Hendrickson, and Bernie Windham for countless volunteer hours of analyzing and qualifying the volumes of data; Susie Caplowe for extraordinary coordination of monitors, materials, & reviewers; and to dozens of environmental researchers, activists and state agency employees for analyzing and qualifying the thousands of documents in this year's legislation; a special thank you to Kathy Criscola, Tim Jones, Lindsay Corzine, Nicole D'Angelo, Yara Gomez, Helen Spivey, Beka Martin, and Martha Garcia-Weiss.