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During a month-long marathon, Hathaway was repeatedly grilled by the Senate Interior Committee. Even when he was finally approved last week in a 9-to-4 vote, questions lingered about whether he was the right...
...energy have grown into major and often conflicting American concerns. It is the Interior Secretary who decides how to develop federal resources with the least ecological damage-especially the needed oil, coal and shale-oil reserves on public lands. President Gerald Ford recently picked a new Secretary: Stanley K. Hathaway, 50, the former Republican Governor of Wyoming, who immediately ran into so much flak that he must have thought he was back in World War II, when he served on a B-17 bomber...
After making several "middle-of-the-road" or "liberal" cabinet appointments. President Ford has moved to appease the uneasy conservative wing of his party by installing Hathaway as sucessor to Commerce Department-bound Rogers C.B. Morton. For good reason environmentalists have attacked the Hathaway nomination and plan to battle it in the Senate, where Hathaway's confirmation hearings opened Monday. Still, if the Senate acts customarily, Hathaway will gain easy approval...
...need not look far to see why the prospect of Stanley Hathaway as Interior Secretary frightens those who care about this country's environment. As governor, Hathaway consistently opposed the philosophy and programs of the Department of Interior. He supported extending an airport runway into Grand Teton National Park...
...Ford Administration expects Hathaway to protect America's interior adequately, especially as "Project Independence" pressure grows for accelerated mining of coal and oil shale. Unfortunately, objections of environmentalists in Washington will not shake Senate reluctance to reject a Cabinet nomination. Only extensive public pressure can now spare the country the critical environmental damage that Stanley Hathaway would permit as Secretary of the Interior...