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Discusses the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) need to focus on population growth in solving environmental problems in the Los Angeles Basin in California. Suit filed by environmental groups against the EPA to force it to produce a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) for California; Group Against Smog Pollution (GASP); Control of population growth from illegal immigration.

Editorial. Comments on the environmental policy of the United States. Political backlash caused by public antagonism toward property regulation; Definition of `carrying capacity'; Alleged evils of `domestic consumption'; Implications of losses in biodiversity; High fertility rates as ultimate environmental threat; Electorate's call for an immigration `moratorium.'

Comments on the remarks of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Chief Carol Browner on population and environmental issues and policies. Council on Environmental Quality's role; Immigration Act; Clean Air Act.