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Most people see either the forest or the trees. Michael Dombeck sees logging roads and mining pits--and as head of the U.S. Forest Service, he's in a position to do something about them. Last week Dombeck called for a moratorium on new mining claims on hundreds of thousands of acres of Rocky Mountain forest, and this week he is expected to halt road building on millions more acres of federal land. "Our performance should be based on the long-term health of the land," Dombeck says, "rather than the number of board feet produced...
...Christmas Eve, Washington answered the call. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman increased federal purchases of pork for humanitarian aid, established a moratorium on direct loans for new production plants and urged supermarkets to start passing on savings to consumers and meat packers to buy at voluntary minimum prices (two in the Midwest have already started doing...
...While President Clinton called for a five-year moratorium in this area, 19 European nations have signed a treaty banning (a) manufacture of handguns (b) whaling (c) trade with Iraq (d) human cloning...
After intense gubernatorial lobbying last October, Congress approved legislation that contains a three-year moratorium or "time out" on new Internet taxes and calls for the establishment of a commission to study taxation of transactions using the Internet. The commission has 18 months from the date of enactment of the legislation to complete its work. The commission is comprised of the secretaries of the Departments of Commerce and Treasury and the U.S. Trade Representative, eight state and local representatives, and eight business and consumer representatives...
Last year Congress passed a moratorium, aimed at the Star, protecting New England from factory trawlers until regional commissions can draw up regulations for their own areas. Meanwhile the Star's owners, rebuffed in Gloucester, are lobbying to operate from Maine. Greenpeace and many other groups contend that trawlers are too efficient and too wasteful. They contribute to overfishing by catching everything in a gigantic swath. A problem with this is "by-catch," undersize fish or unwanted species that go back over the side, dead...