Word: conservationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Presidential hopeful Michael S. Dukakis, three-term governor of one of the biggest energy-consuming states, introduced energy as a major campaign issue in speeches in New Hampshire and Wyoming over the past week. Dukakis urged the nation to rely less on imported oil and to promote domestic oil production...
Any similar attempt to ease the greenhouse effect by imposing limits on CO2 and other emissions is unlikely. John Topping, president of the Washington- based Climate Research Institute, argues that adjustments in agricultural production, like limiting the use of nitrogen-based fertilizers, would have only a slight effect. A more...
The National Oceans Policy Commission would be charged with looking at problems such as pollution, coastal zone management, fisheries conservation and acid rain in the oceans and Great Lakes. It would recommend policy changes within two years.
But only a decade and a half ago, the nation's conscience was raised tremendously regarding the environment. Pollution became a buzzword in the days of conservation, ecology, and the Clean Water Act. Incidentally, one of the most important facets of the movement was severely curtailing dumping into the oceans...
Federal agencies have managed the area since 1932, but efforts to make the caves and neighboring mountains into a national park were frustrated by local ranching and mining interests. Great Basin Park, however, is good news for nearby White Pine County, a dusty patchwork of small towns, ranches and mines...