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...number of serious internal office problems and questions of propriety developed as a result of Mr. Burns' conduct." Later, Seymour said he meant that Burns was "overenthusiastic" in his pursuit of polluters. Mild-mannered and bespectacled, Burns has become the center of a controversy that one militant conservationist calls "the Dreyfus case of pollution...
...firing Hickel, though, Nixon replaced him with a potentially tougher law enforcer: the new Environmental Protection Agency under William Ruckelshaus. Nixon also named Russell Train, a respected conservationist, to head the Council on Environmental Quality. He proposed an international treaty to control development of the ocean floors, and signed a bill making oil polluters liable for damage. MORE HIGHWAYS. Congress often matched Nixon's ambivalence. The Senate produced ample environmental crusaders, notably Edmund Muskie, Philip Hart and Gaylord Nelson, the instigator of Earth Day. But except for passing Muskie's Clean Air Act, which focuses on auto pollution...
...year's key protectors of the environment were the courts, which paid unusual attention to a new breed of conservationist lawyers. Despite a threat by the Internal Revenue Service to take away their tax-exempt status, groups like the Environmental Defense Fund pressed suits against governmental agencies and private industries. Legal actions prodded the Departments of Agriculture and HEW to expand ?and start enforcing?an existing ban on DDT. In Alaska, the controversial pipeline was delayed in part by a private suit citing the Environmental Quality Act of 1969, which requires federal agencies to study the environmental impact...
...precautions have been more than adequate. Such a reply, however, may not be enough. Public anxiety over the real or imagined dangers of the atom was on the rise even before Gofman and Tamplin unleashed their polemic. One evidence of this is the proliferation of conservationist lawsuits attempting to block construction of nuclear plants in the U.S. Similar concern has also nearly turned under the AEC's Project Plowshare, which proposes to use nuclear devices for such peaceful purposes as excavating deep-sea harbors, unlocking mineral and gas deposits and digging a new Panama Canal. Seaborg has championed peaceful...
MacKenzie Thorpe has been stalking through the Lincolnshire marshes for most of his 62 years. Hunter, guide, marsh warden, bird advisory officer, conservationist, naturalist and lecturer, he is a legendary figure in British wildlife circles. He is called Kenzie the Wild-Goose Man. He is also the Owl Man, the Weasel Man, the Finch Man−a caller of the wild who can lure a hare from its hole or a baby seal onto the beach. Thorpe can mimic 88 different bird calls, ranging from the swallow's high titter to the low cluck of the red-legged partridge...