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Environmentalists are going to court to stop Secretary Watt...
...doubt about it, Dick Davenport is plenty steamed. Husband of Congresswoman Lacey Davenport in Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip, he discovered last week that U.S. Secretary of the Interior James Watt plans to open Davenport's beloved Matagorda Island Wildlife Refuge in Texas to developers. "Watt can't do that!" fumes the courtly Davenport, his straw boater slightly askew. "It's outrageous and unconscionable!" So furious is he that, "as secretary of the Maryland Audubon Society, I'm seriously thinking of demanding Watt's resignation in our next newsletter...
...Watching Watt...
According to your story "A Watt That Produces Steam" [Aug. 3], White House aides believe that James Watt's difficulties "stem more from style than substance." How would a mere change of style help protect our environment from Watt's narrow, future-be-damned attitude...
Secretary of the Interior Watt says that he doesn't "believe government should stand in the way of the free market." The notion of a free market first and the environment second creates the illusion that human beings are on this planet as landlords, not boarders. Such an anthropocentric view can only result in disaster. Government intervention is far preferable to the lack of concern for the environment that has been demonstrated by the free market...