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Choosing to avoid a fight with Democrats in Congress, the Clinton Administration scrapped a plan to conduct nine underground nuclear tests, extending its moratorium through September 1994 unless another nation starts testing first. The Pentagon and the State Department say a few tests are needed to ensure the safety of the U.S. arsenal...
While it drafts tougher safety regulations for hazardous-waste incinerators, the Clinton Administration announced a de facto 18-month moratorium on the licensing of new facilities...
...moratorium prevails while Norway spouts defiance...
...again conservationists have called for more studies before the ban is lifted -- a tactic used widely by industries to delay environmental regulations. In this case, there are sound reasons for caution. Humans have failed miserably in efforts to manage the harvesting of wild animals, and the IWC approved the moratorium because past attempts to control whale hunting had been disastrous. Whalers ignored catch limits and other restrictions designed to protect populations...
Under an IWC program that allows "scientific" whaling, Japan and Norway have run small operations during the moratorium. Norway argues that populations of at least one species, the minke, are healthy enough not to be endangered by small-scale whaling. An estimated 86,700 minke whales live in the northeastern Atlantic and 760,000 in the Antarctic seas. Environmentalists distrust these numbers and counter that the IWC needs to develop stringent monitoring and enforcement before whaling can resume...