Philip E. Clapp, 54; Led Environmental Policy Group - washingtonpost.com
Philip E. Clapp, 54, who created an environmental policy and advocacy group that is now part of the Pew Environment Group and who successfully agitated for environmental causes through jet-setting diplomacy and grass-roots mobilizing, died of pneumonia Sept. 17 at Spaarne Hospital while on vacation in Hoofddorp, Amsterdam. He was a District resident.
Mr. Clapp devoted his 32-year career in Washington to fighting global warming, preserving the world's oceans and reducing air and water pollution. A practicing Buddhist who was also a workaholic and a chain smoker, he focused much of his work on trying to fashion a international pact that would make significant cuts in greenhouse gases.
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Clapp worked for more than a decade on Capitol Hill after graduating from Harvard. He was a Democratic staff member of the U.S. House Budget Committee, where he directed the environmental task force.
He also headed the legislative practice of a large Washington law firm and was a consultant on mergers and acquisitions to investment banking firms.
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