Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...QUARTER-CENTURY AFTER THE FIRST EARTH DAY caught our imagination, 23 years after passage of the Clean Water Act, 22 years after the Endangered Species Act promised fair treatment for wild creatures, how fares our sad old planet's health...
...proposed, so far, to topple the federal tyranny of lead-free gas. But a distinctly raunchy odor arises from the cynical proposed gutting of the 1972 Clean Water Act--gutting decreed on order, to precise stipulations of industry lobbyists--by Republicans who run the House Subcommittee on Water and the Environment...
Really? Here a thoughtful Martian might wonder, "These must be the children. Where are the adults?" As he knows, the Clean Water Act has been a visible, undeniable success. Everyone benefits every day. Streams that were murky with mill waste and untreated sewage now are clear and swimmable. No matter; because oil, gas and real estate interests pleaded inconvenience, water-quality standards are to be lowered. Protection of wetlands, which nourish marine life, is to be cut at a time when fish-producing U.S. coastal ecosystems are nearly barren...
Large corporations roam Washington these days like grazing beasts--not good, not evil, just hungry. They form green-sounding lobbying groups and contribute millions to lawmakers. Something called the "National Wetlands Coalition" raised $7.8 million from British Petroleum, Georgia Pacific, Kerr-McGee and Occidental. The "Clean Water Industry Coalition" raised $15.8 million from Caterpillar, Dow, Du Pont and Union Carbide. Al Meyerhoff, of the Natural Resources Defense Council, says, "Industry lobbyists are writing laws and legislative history. They're doing everything but voting, but maybe that's next...
...permanent, and they weren't paying attention. She guesses Newt Gingrich will turn out to be the best membership raiser the green brigade has had since James Watt's alarming career as Interior Secretary. These days, she says, people like to see wading herons, but they really care about clean water in the aquifer when they understand that their own bodies need it every bit as much as birds...