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The article reports that Ciba-Geigy Corp. has formed a new company called EN-CAS Systems, which will offer the know-how for meeting federal, state and local regulations relating to the environment and to occupational safety and health in the U.S. Headquartered at Greensboro, North Carolina, EN-CAS will help firms in the textile, paper, leather, soap and detergent, dry cleaning and cosmetics industries in meeting with the requirements of some recent legislation including Clean Air Act, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and the Solid Waste Disposal Act.

This article comments on the attack on the federal water resource projects by environmentalists in the U.S. as of September 1972, thereby discussing the role of court as an environmental defender. The specific project issues and tactics have varied, but the underlying mood of the movement is a gnawing impatience with the "pork-barrel system," that political calculus utilized by the U.S. Congress and collaborating administrative agencies in allocating federal water resource funds. Environmentalists recognize the value of some projects emerging from this system, yet frequently criticize the procedure and its results. The administrative agencies that study the feasibility of these projects and ultimately build them share this ire. Conservationists have been particularly irritated with the Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation because their great control over water resource planning has been accompanied by immunity to review or revision of their administrative procedures through outside Pressure. The end product is not the environmentally sound decision but the politically judicious one to the administrator's eye.