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...also condemned big business for the "destruction of our environment," and, referring to the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, said. "This spill seen around the world damaged beaches and destroyed animals and harmed the property and beauty of the surrounding areas. This is one reason why I have introduced legislation to give individuals the federally guaranteed right to sue polluters...
Ferried out to the spill on small landing craft, four lickers extended their long, conveyor belt "tongues" to the oil. A whir of machinery, and the absorbent material on the belt spun into the oil and sopped it up. Heavy rollers at the end of the conveyors then squeezed out the oil into 45-gallon drums. In ten weeks about 200,000 gallons of oil had been lapped up. The licker is doubly effective because its conveyor belt is coated with oil prior to deployment. The result is that the tongue repels surrounding water and gobbles up only...
...more and more Americans turn on their faucets only to have heavily chlorinated and sometimes foaming water spill into their glasses, the sales of bottled water soar. In the past five years, home consumption has increased by more than 50%, and is still rising by a snappy 10% per year. But no overall set of governmental standards or regulations has emerged to ensure that bottled water is not simply tap water in disguise, or something no better...
...there is not so much violence over racial issues here, it is because most Aussies are too apathetic to speak of these matters, much less act. But just try putting milk in their cups before the tea or spill their grog and they go berserk...
...Francisco predecessors as Rolling Stone and the late Earth Times, the 500 monthly is described, somewhat pretentiously, by Editor Pennfield Jensen as "a journal of the bio-renaissance dedicated to positive thought and action. " The first issue examined in detail the whys and wherefores of the big January oil spill in San Francisco Bay and publicized a little-known fight to save an obscure Texas wilderness known as Big Thicket. The current number contains a well-documented article on the dangers of lead poisoning. Promised in an upcoming issue: a look at how Soviet socialism relates to its natural environment...