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...price. Crash industrial development has produced heedless, disorderly growth in such once quiet towns as Rock Springs and Gillette. Poorly controlled strip mining for coal threatens to ravage the ranch lands in the Powder River Basin. Hathaway also condoned the killing of golden eagles and favored building a jetport in Grand Teton National Park. Neither is a happy precedent, since the Interior Secretary is responsible for protecting U.S. wildlife and the national parks. Some 20 environmental groups were aghast at this record and immediately protested Hathaway's Cabinet nomination...
...challenge with ringing rhetoric and some admirable action. He put fragmented activities into a new Environmental Protection Agency, gave it a vigorous director in William Ruckelshaus. Nixon proposed commendable measures ranging from air-pollution control to wiser land use. He stopped a cross-Florida barge canal and an Everglades jetport, rushed new measures to create more parks...
...cities, home owners have risen in vehement objection to the noise of air traffic. Pending suits against Los Angeles International, for example, now add up to an incredible $4 billion. In New York City, authorities have been turned down every time they have proposed a site for a new jetport within 75 miles of Times Square. Indeed, New Jersey Governor William T. Cahill's election platform called for prohibition of any large new airports in the northern part of his state. St. Louis, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Atlanta and San Francisco-all face the same problem. Local citizens flatly reject...
...real problem with gigantism as a solution to the airport problem is that big plots of land are simply not available on the crowded East and West coasts, where air traffic is most congested. In response, New York City is now studying the possibilities of building a new jetport five miles out at sea. "FAA studies indicate that it would cost about $7 billion to create an airport island in the Atlantic," says Lawrence Lerner, the project's designer. "But to build a comparable airport inland would cost at least $5 billion-not counting the costs of transportation...
Last week, in the bloodiest of a long series of skirmishes over the building of Tokyo's new jetport at Narita, some 40 miles southeast of the capital, that code was violently broken. Nearly 5,000 riot police were on hand to help airport officials expropriate three parcels of farm land that were holding up the last stage of construction. The farmers were grimly determined to resist seizure of their ancestral tracts. So too were some 3,000 student activists...