kechara420
01-22-2004, 11:00 AM
From today's USA Today ...
Mr. Bill becomes an environmentalist
An effort to save Louisiana's eroding coasts is getting an assist from the "ohh, noo!!!"-squealing Mr. Bill of Saturday Night Live fame. The clay-animation character, a TV icon during the 1970s whose misadventures usually left him flattened, will be part of a national campaign to raise awareness about Louisiana's shrinking coastal marshes and swamps. Tha campaign will be launched next summer with Mr. Bill and a gang of "Esturians"--Salty the Shrimp, Eddy the Eagle and others. Since 1930, more than 1,900 square miles of marsh has been lost, an area roughly the size of Delaware. Ans the loss continues at aobut 30 square miles a year because of iol and natural gas drilling, an increase in sea levels and engineering of the Mississippi River so its waters do not overflow its banks.
Mr. Bill becomes an environmentalist
An effort to save Louisiana's eroding coasts is getting an assist from the "ohh, noo!!!"-squealing Mr. Bill of Saturday Night Live fame. The clay-animation character, a TV icon during the 1970s whose misadventures usually left him flattened, will be part of a national campaign to raise awareness about Louisiana's shrinking coastal marshes and swamps. Tha campaign will be launched next summer with Mr. Bill and a gang of "Esturians"--Salty the Shrimp, Eddy the Eagle and others. Since 1930, more than 1,900 square miles of marsh has been lost, an area roughly the size of Delaware. Ans the loss continues at aobut 30 square miles a year because of iol and natural gas drilling, an increase in sea levels and engineering of the Mississippi River so its waters do not overflow its banks.