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Politicians have got the message. Late last year, Congress easily passed Senator Henry M. Jackson's National Environmental Policy Act and appropriated $800 million to finance new municipal waste-treatment plants. Senator Gaylord Nelson plans to introduce an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that will guarantee every citizen's right...
An example closer to home: though President Nixon prescribes an increased dose of technology to cure pollution, his medicine may well have side effects. Consider his $10 billion plan to build new primary and secondary municipal water-treatment plants. While such plants do make water cleaner, they also have two...
POLLUTION is not only unhealthy but expensive. It destroys crops, depreciates property, discourages economic development, raises municipal bills (and often taxes), and creates countless hazards whose cost is impossible to compute. Yet all the evidence indicates that letting pollution continue would be more expensive than spending the money needed to...
Some steps are already being taken to meet these bills. New York State has $130 million worth of municipal waste-treatment facilities in operation, another $834 million worth under construction. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware have joined with the Federal Government to form the Delaware River Basin Commission...
Some proof was needed, since Tsirinana (pronounced Tsi-ran) is not in the best of health. A peasant boy who herded zebus until the French sent him off to a Jesuit school, he is now nearing 60. His gait is slow and his words sound mechanical. Moreover, the island'...