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...same time that Cambridge and the Charles River Watershed Association filed notice of intent to sue to stop Z, the Sierra Club and Boston's Committee on Regional Transportation threatened the state with litigation over other aspects of the project...
...Some critics have referred to a strange violent 'seedy' region of the mind (why did I ever popularize that last adjective?) which they call Greeneland, and I have sometimes wondered whether they go round the world blinkered. 'This is Indochina,' I want to exclaim, 'this is Mexico, this is Sierra Leone carefully and accurately described.' " But on his journeys the author carried a transforming talent and temperament that rendered all the places, no matter how meticulously portrayed, not only seedy but unmistakably Greeneland...
...threat to the world's fast-diminishing rain forests has united the normally fractious environmental community. The organizations arrayed against this peril constitute a Who's Who of the environmental movement: the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, the World Wildlife Fund, the National Wildlife Federation and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Testifying before Congress, Bruce Rich, chairman of the Environmental Defense Fund's International Program, said none of these groups were "exaggerating when they say they fear that an environmental Frankenstein has been unleashed...
...Sierra Club is filing suits against three other state agencies besides the DPW. According to Priscilla A. Chapman, director of the New England chapter of the Sierra Club, the state did not comply with Massachusetts environmental policy regulations in its review of some potential hazards related to the proposed Central Artery...
Chapman said she was disappointed that the state had not responded to the intention to sue notice that the Sierra Club filed two months ago. "I'm not aware of anything that has changed since the day we filed the notice and now," she said...