As she asked the Sussex County Council to help fund the Delaware Environmental Coalition, Mimi Perdue asked council members to remember three words that describe its importance: economy, environment and education.
“This is a win-win-win project for anyone. There is no downside to this,” she said, reminding the council, at the Tuesday, June 3, meeting, that the University of Delaware is investing — as is the U.S. Congress and Delaware State Legislature — “and we are hoping the county council will see fit to do the same.”
She was at the council meeting with Rick Chamberlin, president of the coalition, as well as University of Delaware Professor Ed Hale and Kim Hoey Stevenson, who said she got involved because she believes in the coalition, formed to help communities protect the environment and living shoreline, enhance environmental sustainability and support Delaware’s ocean-centered “blue” economy.