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Comments on key controversies pertaining to legislation and rulings relevant to environmental violations citing a lawsuit filed by lawyer, Victor Yannacone against the local authorities of Patchogue, Long Island in New York for using DDT. Actions of Yannacone to rid the entire country of a variety of environmental problems and violations; Establishment of the Environmental Defense Fund by Yannacone and his colleagues to give legal and scientific support to local groups struggling against pollution. Issues on the efforts of the group in influencing the Michigan Court of Appeals to secure an order restraining the state's Department of Agriculture from dumping three tons of DDT on Berrien County; Existing environmental laws and policies.

Discusses the dispute between Representative Richard Ottinger and New York State Governor Nelson Rockefeller over the plan of Consolidated Edison Co. to build a hydroelectric project on Storm King Mountain in 1965. Reaction of New York voters to the support of Rockefeller for the plan; Proposal by Ottinger to save the lower part of Hudson River; Efforts of Rockefeller to counter the proposal of Ottinger; State and federal agencies involved in saving Hudson River.

The article offers information on various topics related to environmental protection. It states that Henry L. Diamond, New York commissioner of the environmental conservation, recommends that the system use in Greenburgh, New York where trees are used to make Christmas trees is a better ecological idea. Professor James J. Flink of University of California tackles during the meeting of the American Historical Association regarding the changes in the attitudes of Americans towards automobiles relative to environmental pollution. It says that U.S. President Richard Nixon establishes a program to clean-up U.S. waterways based from the mandates of 1899 Rovers and Harbors Act. Meanwhile, the federal court in Washington contends that discharges into non-navigable waterways are considered illegal.

The article focuses on the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), a coalition of 60 lawyers and 700 scientists. The EDF was fouded in Long Island, New York in 1967. The EDF is financed mainly by 10 dollars a year dues from 25,000 supporters, and operates out of East Setauket, New York and has branches in Washington, D.C., and Berkeley, California. Earlier, EDF fought for environmental safeguards on the trans-Alaska pipeline. EDF approves limited spraying of some pesticides instead of advocating a ban on all pesticides.

The article focuses on the project of ecology-action groups to create a park on a vacant lot between Fiftieth and Fifty-first streets, west of Tenth Avenue, in Hell's Kitchen in New York. Many of the kids who worked on the project drew their inspiration from the attempt to build a people's park in Berkeley, California, an episode that ended with mass demonstrations, arrests and the killing of a bystander by police gunfire.