Terri Swearingen is awarded the 1997 Goldman Environmental Prize for North America. Text of acceptance speech . Minutes covers the WTI conflict. Two hundred students from a 250-mile radius attend a rally at WTI, featuring Dr. Paul Connett. Citizens deliver 100 copies of Vice President Al Gore's book, Earth in the Balance, to the White House in a mass recall.
Citizens chain themselves around a school bus in front of the Swiss embassy.
Twenty-three people are arrested. Bus tour ends with citizens from across the country building a mock incinerator that released clouds of mock emissions in front of the White House. Fifty-four people are arrested. Eight citizens arrested at White House. U.S. EPA Administrator Carol Browner recuses herself from all WTI matters.