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But in the meantime, a group of landowners alarmed by this prospect initiated an enormous lobbying campaign against enforcement, complete with full page ads in the Washington Post. They went to court and argued that an environmental impact statement (which would delay enforcement by at least a year) was required...
Whatever the merits of the suit, it appears that the Carter administration has taken this opportunity to soften its support of the original law. Andrus now maintains that "a statement should be prepared whether required by the law or not. For that reason, we will not appeal the Fresno decision...
If Carter advocates significantly loosening the restrictions established in the 1902 law, he will put the federal government in the position of substantially subsidizing agribusiness: most of the farms in violation of the existing statute are large corporate farms. Irrigation is an energy-intensive and usually very expensive operation. According...
For a brief time last summer it looked as though a President had finally found the wherewithal to stand up to the corporate lobby in favor of the small farmer and economic justice. If the amendments Carter introduces to the Reclamation Act of 1902 in the next Congressional session significantly...
In Henry Blanton's Texas, abuse and affection are two sides of the same paternalism that cowboys and their rancher bosses have always traded in. It is the style the world got a look at in the carrot-and-stick politics of Lyndon B. Johnson. Henry Blanton is an...