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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That does not stop people from trying. The growing damage to oceanfront property has generated a host of makeshift solutions to erosion. On Galveston Bay, desperate ranchers have positioned junked cars on the shore to prevent the waters from washing away roads. Conservation officers are planting dense patches of cordgrass just offshore in an effort to buffer the bay's clay banks from the relentlessly lapping waters. To protect the transplants until they take hold, conservationists have jury-rigged a protective barrier of old Air Force parachutes in the water to absorb and attenuate the force of the waves. Harry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Shrinking Shores | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

...simplest and most effective response to coastal erosion would be to prevent people from living at the edge of the sea. The nonprofit, Washington- based Nature Conservancy encourages just that by buying threatened coastal areas and refusing to develop them. The group has made 32 separate purchases in eight states, sheltering more than 250,000 acres, including 13 barrier islands off the coast of Virginia that it bought for $10 million. Says Orrin Pilkey, a Duke University geologist and one of the country's top experts on beach erosion: "Retreat is the ultimate solution. Property owners must pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Shrinking Shores | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

...promptly decided to change its laws to enable these paints to go into use despite the refusal of the governors to present safety plans. The Markey Amendment essentially sought to prevent the NRC from relaxing these standards...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: The Left's Adoption of States' Rights | 8/7/1987 | See Source »

Clearly, the action by the Governors marked a stand against nuclear energy. They knew that by refusing to offer the evacuation plans they were playing trump cards which would prevent the NRC from licensing the plants. Markey, as a strenuous opponent of nuclear energy, sponsored the amendment because he saw the potential in the Dukakis and Cuomo actions to prevent unclear plants from being licensed forever...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: The Left's Adoption of States' Rights | 8/7/1987 | See Source »

Neustadt agreed, saying, "There isn't any wayto pass laws to prevent this from happening.You've got to count on the prudence and good senseof people in office...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: Profs Say Hearings Helpful | 8/4/1987 | See Source »

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