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Comments on the big oil companies spending a lot of money promoting the existence of an energy crisis in the U.S. Series of editorial-page advertisements run by oil firms advising the American public on how to cut home heating and gasoline costs; Use by the oil firms of the advertising campaigns to criticize environmental laws they are forced to observe and lend weight to arguments in favor of higher fuel prices and looser government controls; Implications on the energy industries and environmental policies.

Focuses on efforts of the federal officials to restrain the change of the U.S. Environmental Protection Act into a law. Names of noted government officials who are against the change of the bill into a law; Details about the provisions on the bill; Reference to the modification of traditional law through the bill; Discussion of the difficulty that except in a relatively few situation environmental control cannot be reduced to some statutory formula that automatically covers all situations; Reason behind the protest of the federal officials against the bill; Statement made by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the bill.

Comments on the need to balance the protection of natural resources and the prospering of industry in the United States. Recommendations by U.S. President Richard Nixon in his message to Congress on the environment; Author James Ridgeway's suggestion that virtually all modern programs for controlling pollution begin the premise that controlling pollution is essential for industrial growth; Ecology crusade of 1970 which President Nixon and intelligent businessmen found appealing; Need for effective environmental legislation.

Focuses on the formation of the organization Delta County Citizens Committee to Save-Our-Air in Escanaba, Michigan. Purpose of the committee; Incident attributing to the formation of the committee; Guidelines of the Air Pollution Control Ordinance drafted by the county board; Proposal of committee spokesmen to hold a public hearing on the issue of draft ordinance.