§5507 Environmental Education Awards

Summary

The Administrator must create national awards to honor outstanding work in environmental education. These include the Theodore Roosevelt Award (for a career in education or administration), the Henry David Thoreau Award (for writing about nature and pollution), the Rachael Carson Award (for print, film, or broadcast work that educates the public), and the Gifford Pinchot Award (for education about forestry and natural resource management). Winners of those awards must be nominated by the Environmental Education Advisory Council. The Administrator may also create the President’s Environmental Youth Awards for K–12 students with excellent local projects. The Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality, for the President, may run a program to honor one elementary or secondary teacher and that teacher’s local education agency from each State, including the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Each selected teacher may receive up to $2,500 for professional development in environmental education. The employing local education agency may receive up to $2,500 to fund environmental education activities, but not for construction, general expenses, salaries, bonuses, or other administrative costs.