Times Gets Award for Environment Stories

WASHINGTON — The Friends of the United Nations Environment Program Tuesday presented a media achievement award to the Los Angeles Times “in recognition of its outstanding coverage of environmental issues.”

Winners of a national poster contest based on the theme of “The Earth is for Tomorrow’s Children” also were honored at a Capitol Hill reception marking World Environment Day.

Friends President Richard A. Hellman said that judges of the media award--the organization’s first--chose a general circulation newspaper rather than a publication specializing in environmental news to foster wider public awareness of environmental problems. The Washington-based organization was formed four years ago to build U.S. support for the Environment Program, a U.N. agency headquartered in Nairobi.