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Focuses on U.S. Senator Henry Martin Jackson. Admiration of Jackson by labor leader, George Meany and Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley; Popularity of Jackson among white, middle-class suburban voters; Opposition of Jackson to funds the House Un-American Activities Committee; Explanation given by Jackson to housewives that inflation is the result of the energy crisis indirectly caused by Russians; Initiation of the legislation, the National Environment Policy Act, by Jackson.

The article presents commentary on various domestic U.S. politics as of the week of January 22, 1972. An overview of environmental policy concerning anti-pollution regulations for bodies of water is given. Reform efforts by the Democratic Party to better include women in its political representation are discussed. Interactions between the Federal Communications Commission and the Bell Telephone system and AT&T are reviewed.

The article presents commentary on various international and domestic U.S. politics as of the week of May 1, 1971. The rising political influence of conservation and environmentalism in U.S. politics is reviewed in detail. Discussion concerning the management and activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency is provided. Criticism on President Nixon's tax break for businesses is also given.

Discusses the harmful effects of pesticides on humans. Estimated amount of pesticides that Americans dump and spray on their gardens, lawns, forests, pastures, farms, lakes and rivers; Indication that major pesticides persist for years in the soil and atmosphere; Results of a governmental probe on herbicides by Senator Philip Hart's environmental subcommittee; Agriculture Department officials' refusal to take any action against the herbicide 2,4,5-T which is used on range and pasture-land.

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.

Comments on the environmental policies of President Richard Nixon's administration in the U.S. Expectations that state and local governments, along with the private sector, will play the central role in environmental control; Other political issues that seem to preoccupy Nixon; Implications on environmental policy and politics.

Focuses on problems related to the approval of the construction of a trans-Alaskan oil pipeline by U.S. Interior Secretary Rogers B. Morton. Reasons for the delay in the construction of the pipeline; Objections of environmentalists to the construction of the pipeline; Sources that are capable to supply crude oil to the U.S.; Significance of the Alaskan oil for the U.S.; Views that the environmentalists' objections to the Alaskan pipeline arise from fears that wildlife life-cycle and migration patterns will be disrupted; Opinion that this project has been planned in order to satisfy petroleum thirst of the U.S.

Discusses the condition of the water pollution in the U.S. Concern over the absence of limitations on the use of the environment for waste disposal by companies; Evidence of the receipt of incentives by firms and cities to continue polluting; Failure of the federal government expenditures to change the system; Criticism against legal enforcement which delays the decisions regarding environmental violations; Proposal for the imposition of levies on all wastes dumped into the environment; Basis of the charging on the amount of damage posed by the pollutant to the ecology.

Discusses the economic aspects of pollution. Application of marginalism to questions of pollution; Effects of the divergence between private and social costs on pollution; Use of an economic approach in pollution control; Efficacy of a price or penalty system in controlling pollution.

Focuses on the political controversies concerning the efforts of a mounting crusade to preserve vast unspoiled tracts of Federal lands in the U.S. Definition of wilderness under a bill proposed by the U.S. Senate's Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs; Claims of the settlers on the rights to the lands; Arguments of industries depending on forest products on the efforts of the crusade.

Focuses on the environmental issues confronting the state of Colorado. Impact of the increasing number of vehicles on the environment; Status of the natural outdoor amenities in the area; Impact of the natural gas recovery program of the Atomic Energy Commission on the region's slopes; Consequences with the lack of mining law in the state; Information that last year the House in Colorado passed, but the U.S. Senate rejected, a bill that would have set up a five-member state commission with power to veto major land development proposals.

In this article the author some points which he would take if becomes the U.S. President. Some 68 million Americans camp, fish or hike each year in National Forests. Yet, when private lands surround these public preserves, people have been assessed entrance fees as high as $25 to enter their own domain. The government has authority to prevent this, and it should be used. More than 1.5 million acres in Colorado alone are dominated by private interests, and similar situations exist in other Western states.

This article focuses on doctrinal stands of U.S. Presidents regarding the use of natural resources towards public interests, specially regarding Hells Canyon, the finest remaining water-power site in the U.S. Ever since the Pleistocene Epoch, the mountain river has been gnawing at the ramparts of the Waillowa and Seven Devils Ranges. At Hells Canyon, on the Oregon-Idaho boundary, an era has ended. It began half a century ago with the trail-riding Gifford Pinchot, who heralded the doctrine of equal rights for all, special privilege for none. Pinchot and his sponsor, Theodore Roosevelt, stood for two principles: first, full use, in the public interest, of such resources as rivers and hydroelectric sites; and second, eternal protection of resources which should be saved for future generations.

Presents information on the construction of the Rye-Oyster Bay bridge, a six-mile bridge between Rye and Oyster bay. Fact that the Rye-Oyster Bay bridge was proposed by the New York State Department of Transportation and Metropolitan Transportation Authority and is supported by the construction industry; Report that the purpose of the bridge is to provide greater access between Long Island, New England and northern New York, and to relieve congestion on existing routes; Fact that the 33 million cars and trucks expected to use the bridge each year will cause a major increase in noise level and air pollution concentration which in the immediate area will violate federal minimum standards; Deliberations on environmental issues that needs to be taken care of before going ahead with the construction.

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.

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.

Offers a look at the extent of air pollution in Lewiston, Idaho and Clarkston, Washington caused by the operation of the pulp mills of Potlatch Forest Industries. Information on a report from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare based on environmental survey of the towns; Reaction of state agencies to the efforts of the federal government to address the problem; Health problems suffered by the population because of pollution.