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BC-EARTH-Adirondacks, Adv 01,1212
$Adv01
For Release Sunday, April 1, and Thereafter
Adirondack Battle: 'Millions of Acres for Bugs, Little for People'
Eds: This is another in a series of stories planned in advance of
20th anniversary observances for Earth Day in April.
With LaserPhotos
By ELIZABETH EDWARDSEN
Associated Press Writer
NORTH CREEK, N.Y. (AP) - For this time of year, it was a deceptively
warm day. Tall pines and hemlocks reached for a cloudless sky. Big,
thick-coated dogs sprawled along dusty roads. Locals walked to lunch
in shirtsleeves.
But breaking through the still mountain air was the rhythmic thwack
of hammers, the whine of drills, the beep of heavy equipment backing
up and the roar of bulldozers.
In North Creek these days, modern ''townhouse communities'' seem to
sprout from the mountainsides more thickly than wildflowers, and a
developer is reshaping two blocks that make up nearly half of the
business district in this tiny Adirondack village.
This kind of development has environmentalists worried about the
future of the Adirondack Park, a 6 million-acre tract of forest and
mountains bigger than any other state or national park in the lower
48 states.
But it also represents the kind of economic revitalization that some
North Creek natives, like restaurant owner Francis Smith, have been
waiting for. Smith's Restaurant, a pine-paneled coffee shop and
tavern, has been in his family since the early 1920s.
''I'm a businessman, so to me the development is a good thing,''
said Smith, sitting in a worn red vinyl-padded booth. ''On the other
hand, there seems to be just too much construction going on. Maybe
it's going overboard.''
How much is too much is on the minds of many in the Adirondack Park,
a vast patchwork of private and public land, much of the latter
guaranteed by the state constitution to remain ''forever wild.''
The state regulates all new development in the park through a
21-year-old land-use plan. Its provisions have made for plenty of
strife among those wanting to protect the park's undeniable beauty,
those trying to make a living and a home within its boundaries, and
those looking to make money exploiting its riches.
With the 20th anniversary of Earth Day just three weeks away, the
battle over land use in the 98-year-old park has flared in
anticipation of a report, to be presented to Gov. Mario Cuomo on
Sunday, from the Commission on the Adirondacks in the 21st Century.
Cuomo cited increasing property values, development and land
speculation last year when he appointed the commission to help map
the park's future.
In 1969, a similar commission appointed by then-Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller devised what was at the time considered a bold plan to
control development seen as a threat to the Adirondack wilderness.
Of the park's 3.5 million acres of private land, 53 percent was
restricted to having just one house for each 43 acres. Home sites of
7 1/2 acres were mandated for an additional 35 percent. The remaining 12
percent of private land fell into six various use categories.
The plan slowed development immediately but bred contempt among many
local residents, officials and developers. The next several years
were a time of angry words, broken windows, slashed tires and
punches. Mounds of animal waste were delivered to the Adirondack Park
Agency, the state body set up in 1973 to regulate development.
Bad feelings are welling again as many Adirondack people anticipate
the Cuomo commission will recommend even stricter land use controls.
''When these people were picked (for the commission) we knew their
position,'' said Francis Casier, a 71-year-old Saranac Lake builder.
''The state has designated 1.5 million acres as wetlands for grasses
and bugs, but only a few thousand acres for human beings,'' he said.
''The highest and best use for our land should be for homes and
amenities for people and their families.''
Development would bring jobs and money to a region where ''the
quality of life is great, as long as you don't need to spend any
money,'' said Barbara Delczeg, who works for the Gore Mountain Region
Chamber of Commerce.
The per capita income of the 130,000 park residents is just 72
percent of the state average. It's about 94 percent of the average
for the state's rural counties.
''We need this growth so much,'' said Delczeg. ''We need the jobs,
we need the money. We need it to survive.''
North Creek isn't the only place ringing with the sounds of
development and dissent.
In Lake Placid, a developer wants to rebuild the Lake Placid Club, a
rambling, turn-of-the-century hotel that is on the National Register
of Historic Places but has fallen into disrepair. But the development
would include hundreds of luxurious second homes and a golf course.
''We're seeing increased development pressure everywhere,'' said
Eric Siy of the Adirondack Council, a regional environmental group.
''If we don't act now, we may not have a park by the year 2000.''
The Adirondack Council advocates a two-year building moratorium in
much of the park, as well as major additions to the park's wilderness
and wild forest areas. They say developers, fearful about the Cuomo
commission recommendations, are rushing to build while they still
can.
Development and subdivision applications submitted to the Adirondack
Park Agency will rise by 75 percent, from 631 in 1989 to about 1,100
this year, agency Executive Director Robert Glennon predicts.
The commission itself, in an interim newsletter, gave a strong
indication that tighter controls might be in the cards.
''Controls once seen as daring and stringent are now considered weak
and ineffective,'' the newsletter said. ''Environmental policies and
laws once heralded as being on the cutting edge of environmental
protection now seem outdated.''
George Davis, executive director of the Cuomo commission, helped
create the current Adirondack land-use map while working for the
Rockefeller commission. Davis said the original plan failed to
foresee that wealthy city dwellers in the 1990s would be able to
afford ''little mini-wildernesses'' - 50-acre building lots for
second homes that fit the land-use restrictions.
Like Davis, Casier has noted the impact of rich second-home owners.
''People come in from the city and they want their little piece (of
the Adirondacks),'' said the developer. ''The minute they get their
little piece, they don't want anyone else to have a little piece.''
But he regards George Davis as ''an enemy of Adirondack people.''
The lot-size limitations have made it almost impossible to build
affordable housing in the region, Casier said.
To keep things affordable and save jobs, some environmentalists are
concentrating less on halting development and more on persuading
officials to expand the state easement acquisition program. Under
this, the state buys development and recreation rights to a parcel of
land, but the property owner keeps title and can use the land for
timber production.
The easements, cheaper than buying the land outright, also give the
state more for its money, said Neil Woodworth of the Adirondack
Mountain Club. And, he noted, even when loggers are finished with the
land, the state will control the development rights.
''A lot of the land we need to preserve, to protect from
development, is also land critical to the forest products industry
and provides an awful lot of jobs,'' Woodworth said. ''So
(preservationists) can't just buy it all up.''
End Adv for Sunday, April 1
AP-NY-03-30-90 2142EST
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a008 2300 01 Apr 90
PM-Earth Day, Bjt,0722
Organizers Using Earth Day to Raise Consciousness About Environment
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - A worldwide celebration of the environment will
envelop this battered and polluted planet this month, and by all
accounts Earth Day '90 will dwarf its namesake of two decades ago.
Even corporate America wants to get involved.
Planning for the environmental extravaganza has been in the works
for more than a year. President Bush has proclaimed April 22 Earth
Day, and governors and mayors across the country are issuing similar
proclamations.
That spring Sunday comes exactly 20 year after Earth Day '70 ushered
in the modern environmental movement.
Denis Hayes, a California lawyer who was instrumental in the first
Earth Day activities and is chairman of Earth Day 1990, says he wants
this year's event to be more than a birthday party.
The goal is ''to galvanize a new outpouring of public support for
environmental values'' and grab the attention of ''a new generation
of activists in the environmental struggle'' of the coming decade and
the next century, he says.
Earth Day 1990, the corporate entity that is coordinating Earth Day
activities, has refused sponsorship from most corporations. And the
Environmental Protection Agency, reacting to complaints from
environmentalists, scrapped plans for an industry-financed $1 million
''Earthfest'' on the National Mall to publicize corporate
environmental initiatives.
''There's a legitimate argument going on,'' says Tina Hobson,
executive director of Renew America, a group that has both business
and environmental ties. ''Who has the right to participate in Earth
Day? Only those who are clean environmentally ... or anyone? I take
the side that everyone is entitled to participate.''
Christina Desser, executive director of Earth Day 1990, responds:
''We made a decision early on that Earth Day was a day for people,
not a day for corporate publicity or corporate rehabilitation.'' She
says many companies may promote environmentally sound programs on the
one hand, but at the same time fight to defeat environmental
legislation or continue to be a major polluter.
Jeremy Rifkin, who for years has been among the most militant of
environmentalists, is more critical. ''The corporations are
attempting to steamroll and take over Earth Day to sell products and
to cash in,'' he maintains.
Organizers say there will be events in 130 countries, ranging from
simple nature walks and teach-ins to massive outdoor rallies.
His group, working with a budget of $3 million, has amassed a
130-page calendar of events planned for Earth Day.
Among them:
-Elementary school students in Arizona will plant hundreds of trees.
-Many communities will close streets to motorized traffic and open
them to bicyclists.
-Operators of chemical plants will hold open houses.
-The elephants at the National Zoo in Washington will crush aluminum
cans to promote recycling.
A rival group - called Earth Day '20 - has organized representatives
of the United States, Soviet Union and China for a climb up Mount
Everest to dramatize the need for international cooperation in
dealing with today's global environmental problems.
Gaylord Nelson, a former senator who founded the first Earth Day,
said this year's celebration will likely be ''the largest grassroots
demonstration in history.''
Nelson, a longtime conservationist who now is counselor to the
Wilderness Society, says the goal of Earth Day '90 should be to
create such a stir that it ''shakes the political leadership of the
world out of its lethargy'' and forces it to deal with the globe's
environmental problems.
Ruth Caplan, who as a mother of two young children participated in
the 1970 Earth Day celebration, said the momentum created by the
first Earth Day has slowed.
''We must have activism in the 1990s if we are to prevent disaster
in the next century,'' says Ms. Caplan, now executive director of the
Environmental Action Foundation, a Washington-based environmental
group.
Many Fortune 500 companies are planning events, often in conjunction
with their employees or local community leaders, to mark April 22 as
a day for the environment, and many trade groups have been advising
their members how to play up environmental issues on both the federal
and local level.
The enthusiasm has not grabbed everyone.
''What Earth Day is going to be is an anti-technology,
anti-business, anti-Western civilization orgy by people who have no
serious concern about environmental objectives,'' complains Fred
Smith, president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
AP-NY-04-02-90 0146EDT
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a058 0506 03 Apr 90
PM-EARTH-Keeling's Curve, Adv 04,0868
$Adv04
For Release Wednesday PMs, April 4, and Thereafter
Lone Scientist Provides The One Certainty In Global Warming Debate
By PAUL RAEBURN
AP Science Editor
NEW YORK (AP) - How fast will global warming raise Earth's
temperatures? How much will temperatures rise? Will coastal cities be
flooded by rising sea levels?
At the center of the stormy debate over the greenhouse effect, one
bright area of calm remains: Charles Keeling's curve.
The curve is a record of the slow, inexorable climb of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere during the past 30 years.
Keeling, a chemist at the University of California at San Diego, has
made it his life's work to develop the most detailed and accurate
measurements possible of carbon dioxide.
Carbon dioxide traps the sun's heat in the atmosphere, and Keeling's
curve charting its rise is at the heart of the debate over how much
the Earth's temperature is likely to rise, and how fast.
''Today this ever-lengthening record, Keeling's Curve, provides a
sort of time-lapse X-ray movie of the workings of the spheres, a
surprising inside view of our planet's metabolism,'' says writer
Jonathan Weiner.
Weiner tells the story of the self-effacing Keeling for the first
time in a lucid and compelling book, ''The Next One Hundred Years.''
Keeling, Weiner says, is measuring ''the breathing of the world.''
Keeling's findings are sobering. The amount of carbon dioxide in the
air has increased by 12 percent just since 1958.
Thanks to Keeling's thoroughness, that figure is ironclad.
Researchers debate the effects of that rise, but they don't argue
with Keeling's numbers.
For his part, Keeling sticks to his work. He hasn't played a large
role in the national debate, which has grown in intensity as the 20th
anniversary of Earth Day approaches April 22 and concern over the
environment increases.
But he does have words of warning for those who wave off the fuss
and argue that the Earth's temperature may not be climbing.
''To suppose it isn't going to go up at all would indicate that
somehow the Earth just naturally gets this warm and then stops
warming,'' Keeling said in a telephone interview.
''There shouldn't be any reason we know of that the Earth wouldn't
continue to warm up,'' he said. ''Furthermore, we know from
geological history that it was warmer once upon a time. So logic
suggests that the greenhouse warming has to take place. But how much
warming? And how soon? What's demanded now by political realities is
some fairly hard numbers, and those are not forthcoming.''
The average temperature of the Earth is about 60 degrees Fahrenheit,
Keeling said. With no carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, it would be 0
degrees, and the Earth would be a frozen wasteland unable to support
human life.
The rise in carbon dioxide is due largely to the increasing use of
fossil fuels - coal and oil - during the industrial age, Keeling
said. As carbon dioxide has risen, the production and burning of
fossil fuels also has increased, he said.
''In fact, the shape of the (carbon dioxide) curve looks very much
like the shape of the curve for fossil fuel production,'' Keeling
said.
Research also suggests the Earth's temperature is rising, but
researchers can't be sure. Despite all the concern about global
warming, no one is making an effort to measure temperatures the way
Keeling measured carbon dioxide.
''There is no explicit program to measure air temperatures to look
for these changes,'' he said. Airport temperatures are distorted
because they are taken close to cities.
''The way around that is to establish some very good stations that
are not near cities,'' he said.
A government agricultural weather monitoring network that could be
adapted for that purpose is being cut back to save money, Keeling
said.
''They're compromising the system we already have just at the time
you'd like to know if it's getting warmer,'' he said.
Keeling now is busy trying to determine how variations in the sun's
heat affect carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. As always, he sticks to
the data.
''I don't think I'm in a position to make a strong stand on the
greenhouse warming effect,'' he said.
But he does place himself with those who ''see danger ahead.''
''There are people who say the Earth is robust and there's a
technological fix for almost anything,'' he said. Keeling is not
among them.
''I do subscribe to the position that most of the things we would do
if we were worried about the greenhouse effect are worth doing - for
instance, conserving energy,'' he said.
Beyond that, Keeling won't venture an opinion where he doesn't have
sound, scientific data to back him up.
How much will Earth's temperatures rise, and how fast?
''I have personal feelings on it, but they tend to change as I hear
what other people say,'' he said. ''I can be pushed around like all
the rest of you as new facts come to light.''
End Adv for Wednesday PMs, April 4
AP-NY-04-03-90 0751EDT
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a218 1319 03 Apr 90
AM-People,1092
People in the News
LaserPhoto NY44
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HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) - Scott Carpenter, one of America's first
astronauts, says the United States needs to embark on a new space
mission - to planet Earth.
The astronaut-aquanaut told a Hastings College audience Monday that
if the world doesn't take action soon to preserve the forests, air,
streams and oceans of ''spaceship Earth,'' life as we know it will
not survive.
Carpenter said viewing Earth from the window of his spacecraft in
1962 allowed him to see the grand order of the universe and the
''excruciating beauty but extreme fragility'' of the planet.
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BOSTON (AP) - People who want to change society violently and those
with a peaceful approach are worlds apart, says philosopher and
author Sissela Bok.
Mrs. Bok was interviewed Monday by public television executive Bill
Moyers at the 41st annual meeting of the Council of Foundations.
More than 1,800 philanthropists from around the world are attending
the three-day meeting of the organization for more than 1,000
American philanthropies and grant-makers, who want to promote
organized philanthropy.
''The greatest difference in the world is not so much the balance
between East and West, or the different religions, but within each
tradition between those who want to take a violent road to social
change and those who want to take a non-violent approach,'' said Mrs.
Bok.
She is author of ''A Strategy for Peace,'' teaches philosophy at
Brandeis University, and is the wife of Harvard University President
Derek Bok.
a095 0948 05 Apr 90
PM-EARTH-Offshore Oil, Adv 10,0865
$Adv10
For Release Tues PMs, April 10, and Thereafter
Oil Company Reforms Emerge As Hot Political Issues
Eds: This is another in a series of stories planned in advance of
20th anniversary observances for Earth Day this month.
By MICHAEL FLEEMAN
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Even an environmental debacle like the Huntington
Beach oil spill generates its own kind of gallows humor, including
this joke among residents:
Question: What do you get when you mix oil and water?
Answer: Politicians.
In this case, it seemed as if there were one politician for every
barrel of oil washing up on Surf City U.S.A.
So many politicians took to the blackened sands of Huntington Beach
to condemn the Feb. 7 spill from the ruptured American Trader tanker
that Mayor Tom Mays had to ask them to go through his office first so
they wouldn't interfere with the cleanup.
In this election year, talking tough against the oil companies, with
proposals to ban offshore drilling and to enact strict tanker safety
measures, adds up to smart politics.
For the first time in a decade, environmentalists, politicians and
even some oil industry executives expect this 20th anniversary year
of Earth Day to bring sweeping reform to the oil industry.
The reform movement is being pushed by oil spills in Alaska,
California, New York, New Jersey and Louisiana and a growing feeling
among Americans that more should be done to protect the environment.
Possible changes include requiring double hulls and bottoms on
tankers, shifting shipping lanes farther offshore, better charting of
the ocean bottom, improving procedures for oil spill cleanup, and
putting a fourth year-long moratorium on new offshore drilling.
''The interest in the general public in protecting the coastline is
at an all-time high,'' declared Ann Whitfield, executive director of
the Florida Public Interest Research Group.
The oil industry, meanwhile, worries about an overreaction that
could stifle U.S. oil production and return the country to the days
of oil embargoes and gas lines.
But even many oil officials concede more must be done to avoid
spills and to minimize damage when they occur.
''While it is impossible to guarantee that future accidents will
never happen, we are committed to working to prevent them and to
improving the industry's safety record,'' said James Benton,
executive director of the New Jersey Petroleum Council.
Benton spoke at a recent meeting between oil executives and
officials of New York and New Jersey, where four major spills in the
first 10 weeks of 1990 dumped almost 730,000 gallons of heating oil
and heavy crude into the Arthur Kill and Kill van Kull waterways
between New York City and northern New Jersey.
The first major reform is under consideration in Washington.
Legislation pending in Congress would require double hulls and double
bottoms on tankers. Engineers speculate that a double hull could have
prevented the Huntington Beach spill, apparently the result of the
tanker striking its own anchor, and lessened the effects of the Exxon
Valdez disaster, in which the tanker ripped open on a reef in
Alaska's Prince William Sound.
Eyes are also on President Bush, who pledged in his campaign to be
the ''environmental president,'' to see whether he will try to
reinstate oil and gas drilling in federal waters after the moratorium
expires this year.
The issue is of particular importance in California, where oil
companies have proposed developing millions of acres off the coasts
of central and Northern California. Off Florida, companies want to
drill in tracts north of the Keys.
Many member of Congress say that if Bush decides to resume
additional drilling, they are prepared to seek another moratorium.
''The administration is in a quagmire in the sense that the politics
of California, a very crucial gubernatorial race and the president's
own commitments in the state are in conflict with president's gut
instincts as a former oilman on offshore drilling,'' said Rep. Leon
Panetta, D-Monterey.
Some of the most active work on oil industry reforms is going on at
the state level.
Even before the Huntington Beach spill, the environment was a hot
political issue in California. All three candidates for governor -
U.S. Sen. Pete Wilson, state Attorney General John Van de Kamp and
former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein - have tried to one-up
each other in pledging love for Mother Earth.
Wilson, a Republican, is a longtime opponent of offshore drilling,
so much so that his stance strained relations with the White House in
the early months of the administration.
In addition, state Controller Gray Davis and Lt. Gov. Leo McCarthy
say their re-election is important to maintain their 2-1 lock on the
three-member State Lands Commission - and a virtual ban on additional
drilling.
''I'm a strong environmentalist and I'm committed to remaining a
good steward for California's magnificent coastline,'' Davis said.
''It doesn't take a genius to see that if you change one or two
people on that board you change the direction of California's
coast.''
End Adv for Tues PMs, April 10
AP-NY-04-05-90 1232EDT
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a028 0137 05 Apr 90
PM-Environmental Fair,0617
Industry Shows Best Environmental Face; Greenpeace Grumbles
'Greenwash'
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - There is an $18 light bulb that lasts seven years
and uses one-fourth less energy. And a solar powered car. And don't
forget Mr. R.E. Cycle, a dummy made of recycled plastic bottles and
bags.
In two large tents stretching more than a block in the Capitol's
shadow, corporate America is showing off its best environmental face
in a five-day technology fair.
Some environmentalists were hardly impressed as the fair opened
Wednesday on the national Mall. Several members of Greenpeace
handcuffed themselves to a support pole near the Du Pont Chemical Co.
exhibit. They were among 19 Greenpeace members who were arrested for
demonstrating without a permit, according to the U.S. Park Police.
''Corporate America has begun a campaign to paint themselves
green,'' said Peter Bahouth, executive director of Greenpeace USA. A
Greenpeace banner proclaimed: ''Don't Be Fooled - Industry
Greenwash.''
Bahouth complained that while some of the exhibits by more than 100
companies and trade associations might be environmentally beneficial,
many of the same companies are guilty of pollution and environmental
neglect in other aspects of their businesses.
But organizers of the fair - dubbed Earth Tech - maintained that
many of the exhibits demonstrate business' interest in making
environmental improvements.
''I don't think that you can make anything these days without using
energy or polluting the environment. The question is how much,'' said
Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., co-chairman of the fair's organizing
committee.
The Earth Tech program was said by organizers to have cost about $1
million, mostly paid by exhibitors.
The participants included Fortune 500 companies such as Du Pont and
AT&T but also some lesser knowns such as Oil Stop Inc., which says it
has invented a new type of boom to capture oil spills - the
''self-energizing oil containment system.''
It's so compact, said company official Richard Lazes, that a
5,000-foot spool could be put on a tanker and unwound within minutes.
That much boom would have surrounded the Exxon Valdez, he said.
While several oil companies ''are excited about it, they've made no
commitment yet,'' he added.
Producers of solar, thermal and wind-generated energy were
prominent, as were companies in the rapidly growing industry of waste
management and disposal - and, of course, recycling.
Some exhibits approached the exotic: a solar-powered car that had
traveled across the country; a model of a ''wind plant'' to show that
wind power already is generating millions of kilowatts of power in
parts of California; and the $18 electric bulb that lasts seven
years, won't break and uses one-fourth less energy than a
conventional bulb.
''That's equivalent to not burning 400 pounds of coal over the life
of the bulb,'' said Steve Waxman of Philips Lighting Co. The ''Earth
Light'' isn't available in hardware stores yet but may soon be, he
said.
At the Du Pont exhibit, displays touted the company's efforts to
push for plastic recycling.
That's where visitors could find Mr. R.E. Cycle - his limbs made of
beverage and detergent bottles, a torso of a recycled plastic bag and
his head a milk bottle, also of recycled plastic. He sat on a
wood-like bench made of plastic waste.
At another booth, the American Wood Preservatives Institute and the
National Timber Piling Council passed out saplings wrapped in paper
and ready for planting. The industry over the years has been
criticized by environmentalists for polluting in its production of
chemically treated lumber products.
But they too had a good environmental story to tell, noting the
longevity of treated lumber. ''Treated Wood Saves Trees,'' read the
white and green buttons next to the rows of saplings.
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a078 0740 05 Apr 90
PM-Environmental Fair, 1st Ld, a028,0078
Industry Shows Best Environmental Face; Greenpeace Grumbles
'Greenwash'
Eds: SUB lead to CORRECT that light uses one-fourth of energy of
normal bulb, not one-fourth less
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - There is an $18 light bulb that lasts seven years
and uses only one-fourth of the energy. And a solar powered car. And
don't forget Mr. R.E. Cycle, a dummy made of recycled plastic bottles
and bags.
In two:
AP-NY-04-05-90 1037EDT
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a079 0745 05 Apr 90
PM-Environmental Fair, 1st Ld, CORRECTION, a078,28,0089
WASHINGTON SUB 13th graf: Some exhibits xxx bulb to CORRECT that
light uses one-fourth of energy of normal bulb, not one-fourth less
Some exhibits approached the exotic: a solar-powered car that had
traveled across the country; a model of a ''wind plant'' to show that
wind power already is generating millions of kilowatts of power in
parts of California; and the $18 electric bulb that lasts seven
years, won't break and uses one-fourth of the energy than a
conventional bulb.
''That's equivalent: 14th graf
AP-NY-04-05-90 1040EDT
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a028 0137 05 Apr 90
PM-Environmental Fair,0617
Industry Shows Best Environmental Face; Greenpeace Grumbles
'Greenwash'
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - There is an $18 light bulb that lasts seven years
and uses one-fourth less energy. And a solar powered car. And don't
forget Mr. R.E. Cycle, a dummy made of recycled plastic bottles and
bags.
In two large tents stretching more than a block in the Capitol's
shadow, corporate America is showing off its best environmental face
in a five-day technology fair.
Some environmentalists were hardly impressed as the fair opened
Wednesday on the national Mall. Several members of Greenpeace
handcuffed themselves to a support pole near the Du Pont Chemical Co.
exhibit. They were among 19 Greenpeace members who were arrested for
demonstrating without a permit, according to the U.S. Park Police.
''Corporate America has begun a campaign to paint themselves
green,'' said Peter Bahouth, executive director of Greenpeace USA. A
Greenpeace banner proclaimed: ''Don't Be Fooled - Industry
Greenwash.''
Bahouth complained that while some of the exhibits by more than 100
companies and trade associations might be environmentally beneficial,
many of the same companies are guilty of pollution and environmental
neglect in other aspects of their businesses.
But organizers of the fair - dubbed Earth Tech - maintained that
many of the exhibits demonstrate business' interest in making
environmental improvements.
''I don't think that you can make anything these days without using
energy or polluting the environment. The question is how much,'' said
Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., co-chairman of the fair's organizing
committee.
The Earth Tech program was said by organizers to have cost about $1
million, mostly paid by exhibitors.
The participants included Fortune 500 companies such as Du Pont and
AT&T but also some lesser knowns such as Oil Stop Inc., which says it
has invented a new type of boom to capture oil spills - the
''self-energizing oil containment system.''
It's so compact, said company official Richard Lazes, that a
5,000-foot spool could be put on a tanker and unwound within minutes.
That much boom would have surrounded the Exxon Valdez, he said.
While several oil companies ''are excited about it, they've made no
commitment yet,'' he added.
Producers of solar, thermal and wind-generated energy were
prominent, as were companies in the rapidly growing industry of waste
management and disposal - and, of course, recycling.
Some exhibits approached the exotic: a solar-powered car that had
traveled across the country; a model of a ''wind plant'' to show that
wind power already is generating millions of kilowatts of power in
parts of California; and the $18 electric bulb that lasts seven
years, won't break and uses one-fourth less energy than a
conventional bulb.
''That's equivalent to not burning 400 pounds of coal over the life
of the bulb,'' said Steve Waxman of Philips Lighting Co. The ''Earth
Light'' isn't available in hardware stores yet but may soon be, he
said.
At the Du Pont exhibit, displays touted the company's efforts to
push for plastic recycling.
That's where visitors could find Mr. R.E. Cycle - his limbs made of
beverage and detergent bottles, a torso of a recycled plastic bag and
his head a milk bottle, also of recycled plastic. He sat on a
wood-like bench made of plastic waste.
At another booth, the American Wood Preservatives Institute and the
National Timber Piling Council passed out saplings wrapped in paper
and ready for planting. The industry over the years has been
criticized by environmentalists for polluting in its production of
chemically treated lumber products.
But they too had a good environmental story to tell, noting the
longevity of treated lumber. ''Treated Wood Saves Trees,'' read the
white and green buttons next to the rows of saplings.
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Industry Shows Best Environmental Face; Greenpeace Grumbles
'Greenwash'
Eds: SUB lead to CORRECT that light uses one-fourth of energy of
normal bulb, not one-fourth less
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - There is an $18 light bulb that lasts seven years
and uses only one-fourth of the energy. And a solar powered car. And
don't forget Mr. R.E. Cycle, a dummy made of recycled plastic bottles
and bags.
In two:
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PM-Environmental Fair, 1st Ld, CORRECTION, a078,28,0089
WASHINGTON SUB 13th graf: Some exhibits xxx bulb to CORRECT that
light uses one-fourth of energy of normal bulb, not one-fourth less
Some exhibits approached the exotic: a solar-powered car that had
traveled across the country; a model of a ''wind plant'' to show that
wind power already is generating millions of kilowatts of power in
parts of California; and the $18 electric bulb that lasts seven
years, won't break and uses one-fourth of the energy than a
conventional bulb.
''That's equivalent: 14th graf
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PM-Environmental Fair,0617
Industry Shows Best Environmental Face; Greenpeace Grumbles
'Greenwash'
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - There is an $18 light bulb that lasts seven years
and uses one-fourth less energy. And a solar powered car. And don't
forget Mr. R.E. Cycle, a dummy made of recycled plastic bottles and
bags.
In two large tents stretching more than a block in the Capitol's
shadow, corporate America is showing off its best environmental face
in a five-day technology fair.
Some environmentalists were hardly impressed as the fair opened
Wednesday on the national Mall. Several members of Greenpeace
handcuffed themselves to a support pole near the Du Pont Chemical Co.
exhibit. They were among 19 Greenpeace members who were arrested for
demonstrating without a permit, according to the U.S. Park Police.
''Corporate America has begun a campaign to paint themselves
green,'' said Peter Bahouth, executive director of Greenpeace USA. A
Greenpeace banner proclaimed: ''Don't Be Fooled - Industry
Greenwash.''
Bahouth complained that while some of the exhibits by more than 100
companies and trade associations might be environmentally beneficial,
many of the same companies are guilty of pollution and environmental
neglect in other aspects of their businesses.
But organizers of the fair - dubbed Earth Tech - maintained that
many of the exhibits demonstrate business' interest in making
environmental improvements.
''I don't think that you can make anything these days without using
energy or polluting the environment. The question is how much,'' said
Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., co-chairman of the fair's organizing
committee.
The Earth Tech program was said by organizers to have cost about $1
million, mostly paid by exhibitors.
The participants included Fortune 500 companies such as Du Pont and
AT&T but also some lesser knowns such as Oil Stop Inc., which says it
has invented a new type of boom to capture oil spills - the
''self-energizing oil containment system.''
It's so compact, said company official Richard Lazes, that a
5,000-foot spool could be put on a tanker and unwound within minutes.
That much boom would have surrounded the Exxon Valdez, he said.
While several oil companies ''are excited about it, they've made no
commitment yet,'' he added.
Producers of solar, thermal and wind-generated energy were
prominent, as were companies in the rapidly growing industry of waste
management and disposal - and, of course, recycling.
Some exhibits approached the exotic: a solar-powered car that had
traveled across the country; a model of a ''wind plant'' to show that
wind power already is generating millions of kilowatts of power in
parts of California; and the $18 electric bulb that lasts seven
years, won't break and uses one-fourth less energy than a
conventional bulb.
''That's equivalent to not burning 400 pounds of coal over the life
of the bulb,'' said Steve Waxman of Philips Lighting Co. The ''Earth
Light'' isn't available in hardware stores yet but may soon be, he
said.
At the Du Pont exhibit, displays touted the company's efforts to
push for plastic recycling.
That's where visitors could find Mr. R.E. Cycle - his limbs made of
beverage and detergent bottles, a torso of a recycled plastic bag and
his head a milk bottle, also of recycled plastic. He sat on a
wood-like bench made of plastic waste.
At another booth, the American Wood Preservatives Institute and the
National Timber Piling Council passed out saplings wrapped in paper
and ready for planting. The industry over the years has been
criticized by environmentalists for polluting in its production of
chemically treated lumber products.
But they too had a good environmental story to tell, noting the
longevity of treated lumber. ''Treated Wood Saves Trees,'' read the
white and green buttons next to the rows of saplings.
AP-NY-04-05-90 0424EDT
- - - - - -
a078 0740 05 Apr 90
PM-Environmental Fair, 1st Ld, a028,0078
Industry Shows Best Environmental Face; Greenpeace Grumbles
'Greenwash'
Eds: SUB lead to CORRECT that light uses one-fourth of energy of
normal bulb, not one-fourth less
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - There is an $18 light bulb that lasts seven years
and uses only one-fourth of the energy. And a solar powered car. And
don't forget Mr. R.E. Cycle, a dummy made of recycled plastic bottles
and bags.
In two:
AP-NY-04-05-90 1037EDT
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a079 0745 05 Apr 90
PM-Environmental Fair, 1st Ld, CORRECTION, a078,28,0089
WASHINGTON SUB 13th graf: Some exhibits xxx bulb to CORRECT that
light uses one-fourth of energy of normal bulb, not one-fourth less
Some exhibits approached the exotic: a solar-powered car that had
traveled across the country; a model of a ''wind plant'' to show that
wind power already is generating millions of kilowatts of power in
parts of California; and the $18 electric bulb that lasts seven
years, won't break and uses one-fourth of the energy than a
conventional bulb.
''That's equivalent: 14th graf
AP-NY-04-05-90 1040EDT
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AMs AP News Digest
For Friday AMs
Here are the top stories at this hour from The Associated Press. The
General Desk supervisor is Dan Murphy (212-621-1602). The LaserPhoto
Desk supervisor is Chuck Zoeller (212-621-1900).
US-SOVIET:
Bush, Gorbachev Set Summit for May 30-June 3 in Washington
WASHINGTON - President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S.
Gorbachev announce they will meet for a five-day summit in the United
States beginning May 30, weeks earlier than originally planned. There
will be ''time for a lot of dialogue and a lot of discussion,'' Bush
says.
Slug AM-US-Soviet. Developing.
By Tom Raum. LaserPhoto WX14, Baker meets with Shevardnadze.
Analysis: Time Short if Summit to Be Productive
WASHINGTON - The United States and the Soviet Union have seven short
weeks to put together a summit package of nuclear weapons cutbacks
and American help for the sluggish Soviet economy. Germany and
Lithuania also loom large on the leaders' agenda.
Slug AM-Summit-Analysis. 600 words. News Analysis.
By Diplomatic Writer Barry Schweid.
EAST GERMANY: New Parliament Begins Work on Unification
EAST BERLIN - The nation's first freely chosen Parliament meets in
the hall that was once the domain of the fallen Communist regime and
begins the painful process of leading the drifting nation into
unification with West Germany.
Slug AM-East Germany. Developing.
By Mark Fritz. LaserPhotos BER2, Christian Democrats' Chairman
Lothar de Maiziere arrives at church before parliament meeting; BER4,
de Maiziere signals during parliament session; BER6, new parliament
speaker surrounded by well-wishers.
CHINA: Official Rallies Block Pilgrimages to Tiananmen Square
BEIJING - Authorities stage all-day rallies in Tiananmen Square on
Thursday, China's annual day for mourning the dead, preventing
unofficial pilgrimages to the symbolic center of last year's crushed
democracy movement.
Slug AM-China. Developing.
By Kathy Wilhelm. LaserPhotos NY30, People's Army soldier patrols
Tiananmen Square; BEJ6, soldier blocks television photographer.
SOUTH AFRICA: Mandela Meets de Klerk, Homeland Leaders Abstain
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - In a major setback to peace hopes, leaders
of four black homelands cancel talks with President F.W. de Klerk on
ending unrest and dismantling white-minority rule. De Klerk plans to
meet with Nelson Mandela.
Slug AM-South Africa. Developing.
By Sahm Venter. LaserPhoto CPN1, de Klerk meets with Zulu leader.
Laserphoto staffing Mandela meeting.
ABORTION: If Early and Voluntary, No Threat to Mental Health
WASHINGTON - Legal, voluntary abortion in the first trimester of
pregnancy poses no threat to the mental health of most women,
according to a new study supported by the American Psychological
Association.
Slug AM-Abortion-Psychology. New. 650 words.
By Science Writer Paul Recer. For release at 6 p.m. EDT.
SPECIAL DIET: Gerber Makes a Formula for One
NEW YORK - For a few days this month a quarter of the floor space at
a Gerber Foods plant in Michigan will be given over to a product with
a market of one: Raymond Dunn, a profoundly allergic 15-year-old who
cannot survive without a baby formula Gerber stopped making in 1985.
Slug AM-Gerber Boy. New material, will stand. 650 words.
By Rick Hampson. With LaserPhoto.
SAVING EARTH: Too Many Rich People?
PITTSBURGH - One American does 20 to 100 times more damage to the
planet - and one rich American 1,000 times more damage - than one
person from Bangladesh or Venezuela, a population expert tells a
conference on global environmental problems. ''Actually, the problem
in the world is that there is much too many rich people,'' said Paul
Ehrlich, author of ''The Population Explosion'' and Stanford
University professor of population studies.
Slug AM-Population Boom. New, will stand. 700 words.
By Tara Bradley-Steck.
SPACE TELESCOPE: Hubbles Hobnob on the Cape
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The Hubbles are coming, along with the
Hubbells and maybe even a couple of Hubbels, for a family reunion
toasting next week's launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. They're
relatives of astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble, whose discovery of the
expanding universe gave rise to the Big Bang theory of creation.
Slug AM-Hubble Reunion. New, will stand. 700 words.
By Marcia Dunn. LaserPhoto NY34, filer of Dr. Edwin Hubble.
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Americans' Affect On World Environment Enormous, Expert Says
By TARA BRADLEY-STECK
Associated Press Writer
PITTSBURGH (AP) - One American does 20 to 100 times more damage to
the planet than one person in the Third World, and one rich American
causes 1,000 times more destruction, a population expert said
Thursday.
''The most serious population problem in the world is right here in
the United States,'' said Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University professor
of population studies.
''The most common misperception of the population problem is that
it's a problem of poor Indians who don't know how to use condoms,''
he said. ''Actually, the problem in the world is that there are too
many rich people.''
Ehrlich and other environmentalists spoke to about 1,200 students,
teachers, garden-club members and corporate executives at a
conference on solving global environmental problems.
He said the current world population of 5.3 billion is 1.8 billion
more than in 1968 when he first prophesied the problems of
overpopulation in his book ''The Population Bomb.''
He and his wife, Anne Howland Ehrlich, who co-wrote the current
book, ''The Population Explosion,'' say this decade will be the
turning point for global environmental problems.
''If we don't see some real action in this decade, it will probably
be too late to avert some very serious problems'' including
inadequate food production, global warming, species extinction and
deforestation, said Mrs. Ehrlich, associate director for the Center
for Conservation Biology at Stanford.
Ehrlich railed against highly developed nations like the United
States that he claims consume too much of the world's resources.
''The birth of a baby in the United States is something on the order
of 20 to 100 times more disastrous for the life support systems of
the planet as the birth of a baby in poor countries like Bangladesh
or Venezuela,'' he said.
Most developing countries fall within the range, with Bangladesh
among the poorest and Venezuela among the richest Third World
countries, Mrs. Ehrlich said.
She said she and her husband based the figures on 1987 statistics
compiled by the United Nations on per capita commerical energy
consumption, an index used by environmentalists to measure damage to
the Earth.
''If it's a (rich) baby, it could be a thousand times more,'' Erlich
said. ''Actually, the problem in the world is that there is much too
many rich people. ... It's not how many people you have but how those
people behave.''
People who drive gas-guzzling luxury cars, air-condition their homes
and live from what Ehrlich calls
''high-intensity-the-hell-with-tomorrow agriculture'' do far more
environmental damage than subsistence farmers, he said.
But he was not promoting the idea that Americans should adopt a
peasant lifestyle.
In highly affluent Sweden, the average person uses about 60 percent
as much energy as consumed by the average American, Ehrlich said.
''We are super consumers and very unselective, and we're
extraordinarily incompetent and sloppy with our technologies,'' he
said.
Several environmentalists at the conference echoed Ehrlich's
assessments on overpopulation and his claim the world is running out
of time to find solutions.
''You cannot address the problems soon enough,'' said George
Woodwell, president of the Woods Hole Research Center in Woods Hole,
Mass.
''We are driving the Earth into impoverishment. We are living on its
capital,'' he said. ''We're eating up the standing stocks of trees
and nutrients and soil in the process of feeding the current 5.3
billion people on Earth. In doing that, we make the Earth less
capable of supporting people in the future.''
In terms of global warming, the United States, with about 5 percent
of the world's population, produces 25 percent of the world's output
of carbon dioxide, believed to contribute to the greenhouse effect,
said Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and
professor of botany at Washington University in St. Louis.
''Chicago puts out as much carbon dioxide as China,'' he said.
''It's a peculiar world. The people at the top are consuming far, far
more than a vast number of people at the bottom.''
The environmentalists suggested couples have no more than two
children, buy efficient appliances and cars and organize politically.
''The bright side is we know societies can change very rapidly when
the time is right,'' Ehrlich said.
Woodwell said President Bush could lead the nation in that effort.
''We can only hope one Bush will experience a rapid greening this
spring,'' he said.
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America's Landmark Environmental Laws Have Failed, Book Says
With LaserPhoto
By PAUL RAEBURN
AP Science Editor
NEW YORK (AP) - The staggering $1 trillion the United States has
spent on pollution control during the past 20 years has done little
to clean up the environment.
Emissions of air pollutants, which were supposed to have been cut 90
percent, are down only 18 percent. Emissions of nitrogen oxides,
potent contributors to acid rain, have actually increased by 4.2
percent.
With a single exception, efforts to control pollution have failed,
and Congress is making the same mistakes again as it struggles to
pass a new clean air bill, says the scientist and activist Barry
Commoner, who helped launch the landmark environmental legislation of
the 1970s.
As the 20th anniversary of Earth Day approaches on April 22,
Commoner is looking back on those early efforts in a new book
entitled ''Making Peace with the Planet.''
''I was very active in bringing all of this about,'' he says. ''And
you have to ask yourself, 'What good have I done?' You come to the
conclusion that all that we've been doing has had a minor effect.''
With the one exception: lead.
''Lead has gone down 94 percent,'' Commoner says. ''What's more, the
levels in children's blood have come down. This is a real
achievement.''
What did we do right with lead that we failed to do with nitrogen
oxides, sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide?
The answer is that lead was eliminated from gasoline. There was no
need for controls; lead simply wasn't being injected into the
environment any longer.
In the case of the other pollutants, an attempt was made to control
their release, not eliminate them.
''What it says is controls don't do the job,'' Commoner notes.
''Environmental pollution is an incurable disease that can only be
prevented.'' The same thing happened earlier with DDT. Levels of DDT
in the environment have dropped sharply in developed countries,
because its use was eliminated. If efforts had been made to control
it - rather than eliminate it - those efforts would have failed,
Commoner maintains.
Commoner, 72, directs the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems
at Queens College in New York City. His 1971 book, ''The Closing
Circle,'' was a best-seller that nourished the public's growing
appetite for information on the environmental crisis.
In the 1970s, Commoner focused on the harmful environmental effects
of the energy crisis. In 1980, he ran for president as the candidate
of the Citizens Party, a coalition of reformers he helped put
together.
His activism didn't deter him from research and writing. Most
recently, he has been studying the problem of plastics recycling,
working in cooperation with the environmental group Greenpeace.
Commoner has an acute ability to pierce the web of economics,
science and politics that entangles environmental policy questions.
The result is usually a clear prescription for change.
In the case of current environmental legislation, such as the clean
air bill, Commoner's analysis calls for a switch to pollution
prevention, rather than control.
''Every one of our operational environmental laws goes into effect
only after the pollution has gone into the environment,'' he says.
''You've got to redo the entire legislative base.''
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PM-Global Warming,0475
California Smog Agency Acts to Curb 'Greenhouse Effect'
By BRUCE V. BIGELOW
Associated Press Writer
EL MONTE, Calif. (AP) - Southern California officials have adopted
what appears to be the nation's first comprehensive policy to stem
global warming and the loss of ozone in the Earth's atmosphere.
It was approved unanimously Friday by the governing board of the
regional South Coast Air Quality Management District, the agency that
last year adopted a sweeping anti-smog plan for the Los Angeles
basin.
Board member Harriet M. Wieder of Orange County alluded to the
region's notoriety for the nation's worst smog, saying, ''Because of
our situation here in Southern California, we should be a leader on
this issue.''
Although Vermont has adopted a state policy on global warming,
''this is the first government I know of to adopt a regulatory
program,'' said Curtis A. Moore, an environmental consultant based in
McLean, Va.
The measure proposes restrictions on carbon dioxide and certain
industrial gases causing the destruction of the Earth's protective
ozone layer.
A four-page statement approved by the board directs the district's
staff to draw up a series of rules and programs that address global
warming and ozone problems. The major provisions will:
-Require the recycling of chlorofluorocarbon gases, or CFCs, from
air conditionsers and refrigerators that are serviced or discarded.
Studies have linked CFCs, which are widely used as refrigerants, to
the destruction of ozone in the Earth's outer atmosphere.
-Phase out the use of CFCs and halon gases, other ozone-destroying
compounds widely used in fire extinguishers, by Jan. 1, 1997. A
three-year extension would be granted in certain circumstances.
-Develop strategies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The board
asked its scientific advisory panel to study the feasibility of
curbing carbon dioxide emissions 20 percent by 2000 and 40 percent by
2010.
The district also would to support scientific research of chemicals
that could be used as alternatives to CFCs.
Scientists agree that concentrations of carbon dioxide have
increased in the atmosphere over the past 150 years. Many argue the
gas is raising the planet's temperature by trapping heat in the
atmosphere, but data is inconclusive.
Environmentalists urged the 12-member board to strengthen its policy
by moving up compliance deadlines.
''It is vital for the district to adopt effective,
technology-forcing policies to curb global warming and to halt
depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer,'' said Veronica Kun of
the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Industry executives attacked the plan.
''We believe it is premature to implement a policy that so clearly
assumes there is scientific certainty, especially when the cost to
business, the community and society would be so large,'' said Ross
Hopkins, a Lockheed executive who spoke on behalf of the California
Manufacturers Association.
Hopkins said the district was putting Southern California businesses
at a competitive disadvantage since firms elsewhere would operate
without the cost of compliance.
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$Adv09
For Release Monday PMs, April 9, and thereafter
America's Landmark Environmental Laws Have Failed, Book Says
With LaserPhoto
By PAUL RAEBURN
AP Science Editor
NEW YORK (AP) - The staggering $1 trillion the United States has
spent on pollution control during the past 20 years has done little
to clean up the environment.
Emissions of air pollutants, which were supposed to have been cut 90
percent, are down only 18 percent. Emissions of nitrogen oxides,
potent contributors to acid rain, have actually increased by 4.2
percent.
With a single exception, efforts to control pollution have failed,
and Congress is making the same mistakes again as it struggles to
pass a new clean air bill, says the scientist and activist Barry
Commoner, who helped launch the landmark environmental legislation of
the 1970s.
As the 20th anniversary of Earth Day approaches on April 22,
Commoner is looking back on those early efforts in a new book
entitled ''Making Peace with the Planet.''
''I was very active in bringing all of this about,'' he says. ''And
you have to ask yourself, 'What good have I done?' You come to the
conclusion that all that we've been doing has had a minor effect.''
With the one exception: lead.
''Lead has gone down 94 percent,'' Commoner says. ''What's more, the
levels in children's blood have come down. This is a real
achievement.''
What did we do right with lead that we failed to do with nitrogen
oxides, sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide?
The answer is that lead was eliminated from gasoline. There was no
need for controls; lead simply wasn't being injected into the
environment any longer.
In the case of the other pollutants, an attempt was made to control
their release, not eliminate them.
''What it says is controls don't do the job,'' Commoner notes.
''Environmental pollution is an incurable disease that can only be
prevented.'' The same thing happened earlier with DDT. Levels of DDT
in the environment have dropped sharply in developed countries,
because its use was eliminated. If efforts had been made to control
it - rather than eliminate it - those efforts would have failed,
Commoner maintains.
Commoner, 72, directs the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems
at Queens College in New York City. His 1971 book, ''The Closing
Circle,'' was a best-seller that nourished the public's growing
appetite for information on the environmental crisis.
In the 1970s, Commoner focused on the harmful environmental effects
of the energy crisis. In 1980, he ran for president as the candidate
of the Citizens Party, a coalition of reformers he helped put
together.
His activism didn't deter him from research and writing. Most
recently, he has been studying the problem of plastics recycling,
working in cooperation with the environmental group Greenpeace.
Commoner has an acute ability to pierce the web of economics,
science and politics that entangles environmental policy questions.
The result is usually a clear prescription for change.
In the case of current environmental legislation, such as the clean
air bill, Commoner's analysis calls for a switch to pollution
prevention, rather than control.
''Every one of our operational environmental laws goes into effect
only after the pollution has gone into the environment,'' he says.
''You've got to redo the entire legislative base.''
MORE
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NEW YORK: legislative base.''
In agriculture, for example, prevention means switching to
alternative agricultural practices that don't rely as heavily on
pesticides and fertilizers.
In a recent study, the National Academy of Sciences concluded that
such practices make good economic sense, too.
''Alternative agriculture systems and practices do work, they are
environmentally beneficial, and, when efficiently managed, can be
highly profitable,'' said John Pesek, the chairman of the committee
that produced the report.
With regard to reducing automobile emissions, Commoner calls not for
tighter controls but for new engines that generate fewer pollutants.
A 1974 study showed that the so-called stratified-charge engine, then
in operation, would meet the 90 percent reduction in nitrogen oxides
called for by the Clean Air Act.
''But American manufacturers have thus far been reluctant to make
the large-scale production changes needed to take advantage of this
opportunity,'' Commoner writes.
That is where President Bush could make an important difference,
Commoner says. Bush could proclaim, perhaps as part of an Earth Day
message, that the government would restrict its auto fleet to cars
with stratified-charge engines, creating a market overnight.
''This is something Bush could do with no legislation - a stroke of
the pen,'' Commoner says. ''It requires a plan. It requires a policy.
We have no environmental policy. We have no energy policy.
''It's really a question of leadership.''
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PM-EARTH-Pollution Prevention, Adv 09,0804
$Adv09
For Release Monday PMs, April 9, and thereafter
America's Landmark Environmental Laws Have Failed, Book Says
With LaserPhoto
By PAUL RAEBURN
AP Science Editor
NEW YORK (AP) - The staggering $1 trillion the United States has
spent on pollution control during the past 20 years has done little
to clean up the environment.
Emissions of air pollutants, which were supposed to have been cut 90
percent, are down only 18 percent. Emissions of nitrogen oxides,
potent contributors to acid rain, have actually increased by 4.2
percent.
With a single exception, efforts to control pollution have failed,
and Congress is making the same mistakes again as it struggles to
pass a new clean air bill, says the scientist and activist Barry
Commoner, who helped launch the landmark environmental legislation of
the 1970s.
As the 20th anniversary of Earth Day approaches on April 22,
Commoner is looking back on those early efforts in a new book
entitled ''Making Peace with the Planet.''
''I was very active in bringing all of this about,'' he says. ''And
you have to ask yourself, 'What good have I done?' You come to the
conclusion that all that we've been doing has had a minor effect.''
With the one exception: lead.
''Lead has gone down 94 percent,'' Commoner says. ''What's more, the
levels in children's blood have come down. This is a real
achievement.''
What did we do right with lead that we failed to do with nitrogen
oxides, sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide?
The answer is that lead was eliminated from gasoline. There was no
need for controls; lead simply wasn't being injected into the
environment any longer.
In the case of the other pollutants, an attempt was made to control
their release, not eliminate them.
''What it says is controls don't do the job,'' Commoner notes.
''Environmental pollution is an incurable disease that can only be
prevented.'' The same thing happened earlier with DDT. Levels of DDT
in the environment have dropped sharply in developed countries,
because its use was eliminated. If efforts had been made to control
it - rather than eliminate it - those efforts would have failed,
Commoner maintains.
Commoner, 72, directs the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems
at Queens College in New York City. His 1971 book, ''The Closing
Circle,'' was a best-seller that nourished the public's growing
appetite for information on the environmental crisis.
In the 1970s, Commoner focused on the harmful environmental effects
of the energy crisis. In 1980, he ran for president as the candidate
of the Citizens Party, a coalition of reformers he helped put
together.
His activism didn't deter him from research and writing. Most
recently, he has been studying the problem of plastics recycling,
working in cooperation with the environmental group Greenpeace.
Commoner has an acute ability to pierce the web of economics,
science and politics that entangles environmental policy questions.
The result is usually a clear prescription for change.
In the case of current environmental legislation, such as the clean
air bill, Commoner's analysis calls for a switch to pollution
prevention, rather than control.
''Every one of our operational environmental laws goes into effect
only after the pollution has gone into the environment,'' he says.
''You've got to redo the entire legislative base.''
MORE
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In agriculture, for example, prevention means switching to
alternative agricultural practices that don't rely as heavily on
pesticides and fertilizers.
In a recent study, the National Academy of Sciences concluded that
such practices make good economic sense, too.
''Alternative agriculture systems and practices do work, they are
environmentally beneficial, and, when efficiently managed, can be
highly profitable,'' said John Pesek, the chairman of the committee
that produced the report.
With regard to reducing automobile emissions, Commoner calls not for
tighter controls but for new engines that generate fewer pollutants.
A 1974 study showed that the so-called stratified-charge engine, then
in operation, would meet the 90 percent reduction in nitrogen oxides
called for by the Clean Air Act.
''But American manufacturers have thus far been reluctant to make
the large-scale production changes needed to take advantage of this
opportunity,'' Commoner writes.
That is where President Bush could make an important difference,
Commoner says. Bush could proclaim, perhaps as part of an Earth Day
message, that the government would restrict its auto fleet to cars
with stratified-charge engines, creating a market overnight.
''This is something Bush could do with no legislation - a stroke of
the pen,'' Commoner says. ''It requires a plan. It requires a policy.
We have no environmental policy. We have no energy policy.
''It's really a question of leadership.''
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By BRUCE V. BIGELOW
Associated Press Writer
EL MONTE, Calif. (AP) - Southern California officials have adopted
what appears to be the nation's first comprehensive policy to stem
global warming and the loss of ozone in the Earth's atmosphere.
It was approved unanimously Friday by the governing board of the
regional South Coast Air Quality Management District, the agency that
last year adopted a sweeping anti-smog plan for the Los Angeles
basin.
Board member Harriett M. Wieder of Orange County alluded to the
region's notoriety for the nation's worst smog, saying, ''Because of
our situation here in Southern California, we should be a leader on
this issue.''
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Ecologists Applaud Choice for New Environment Minister
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By PETER MUELLO
Associated Press Writer
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Defenders of nature say the
appointment of Jose Lutzenberger, a noted ecologist, as Brazil's
environment minister could signal an end to wanton destruction of the
Amazon rain forest.
The choice of Lutzenberger, 63, was seen as a victory for
conservationists, who claim the government has done little to stop
slash-and-burn devastation of the Amazon. He was named by President
Fernando Collor de Mello, who took office March 15.
By 1988, ranchers and farmers had destroyed about 8 percent of the
rain forest in the 2 million square miles of Amazon wilderness, said
U.S. researcher Philip Fearnside of the National Institute of
Research in the Amazon.
Carbon dioxide produced by the burning is believed to add to the
''greenhouse effect'' warming the Earth's surface.
''Lutzenberger is the right man in the right place; nobody else has
his credibility,'' Johan Dalgas Frisch, head of the Wildlife
Preservation Association in Sao Paulo, said in an interview.
Antonio Carlos de Oliveira of the ecology group Oikos said: ''He is
superimportant, a legend. We all have the greatest respect and
admiration for him.''
Lutzenberger seeks radical changes in Brazil's environmental policy.
He favors solar, wind and other natural forms of energy over the huge
hydroelectric complexes of recent decades.
A Rio newspaper made the wry comment that Lutzenberger was so
radical about protecting nature that he even opposed lawn mowers.
The new environment minister told The Associated Press: ''We have to
question the fundamental doctrines of modern industrial society,
which is geared to the needs of the powerful. We're not saying give
up technology, but go a different way.''
In his first week on the job, Lutzenberger spoke out against the
controversial Northern Rim project, which would create army posts to
guard Brazil's vast jungle border.
He also promised to review a decision that allowed gold miners to
settle on land claimed by the primitive Yanomami Indians.
Prospectors have invaded Yanomami land in the remote western Amazon
state of Roraima, devastating the forest and bringing disease and
death to the Indians.
After consulting with Lutzenberger and visiting the area, Collor
ordered the dynamiting of clandestine air strips on tribal land and
said the Northern Rim project would be redirected toward protecting
the environment.
''We must remove the prospectors, but we also must give them decent
living conditions,'' Lutzenberger said. ''They are not there because
they're bad or want to destroy.''
Lutzenberger, a descendant of German immigrants, is an agronomist
with a degree from the University of Louisiana. In the 1970s, he
resigned as a chemical company executive to join the ecology movement
and helped found Brazil's first environmental protection group.
Later, Lutzenberger established an environmental consulting firm.
He pushed for tougher laws on pesticide control and for installation
of anti-pollution filters at a cellulose plant in his native Rio
Grande do Sul state, in southern Brazil.
Lutzenberger was among the first to sound the alarm about the
Amazon.
''This problem concerns all of humanity,'' he told reporters shortly
after becoming environment secretary.
''It concerns the continuation of life on this planet. This requires
not just plans for preservation, protection or parks. It requires
fundamentally rethinking our economic programs.''
He appealed for help from industrialized countries.
''We must establish now an intensive and continuing dialogue between
the governments of the First World and the Third World on how we can
collaborate to save the last jungles,'' Lutzenberger told the
journalists.
One way, he said, is to write off part of Brazil's $114 billion
foreign debt against programs to preserve the Amazon.
Brazil has rejected such ''debt for nature'' swaps on grounds they
violate national sovereignty. Of that, Lutzenberger said:
''The idea is to find ways to reduce the debt in exchange for the
preservation of Amazonia by our government. There is not the
slightest intention to 'internationalize' the Amazon.''
A key test of his strength is likely to be a proposed highway from
the western Amazon through Peru to the Pacific.
Lutzenberger opposes the highway, but Peru and governors of Brazil's
Amazonian states say it is vital to economic development in the
region. Most of the governors supported Collor for president.
''The important thing to watch is how much power he has. Let's see
what happens when he conflicts with the highway lobby,'' Fearnside,
the U.S. researcher, said in a telephone interview from Manaus, in
the Amazon jungle 3,000 miles northwest of Rio.
Some fear Lutzenberger's well-known temper and firm convictions
could work against him.
''If he's very radical, Collor will be pressured to get rid of
him,'' Frisch said.
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By KEN KUSMER
Associated Press Writer
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Financially strapped Farm Aid returned Saturday
with its first concert in 2 1/2 years, as performers sounded a message
of concern not only for the family farmer but also for the land they
till.
Farm Aid President Willie Nelson topped the list of performers who
said they were forging a coalition with family farmers,
environmentalists and consumers to work toward reducing the amount of
chemicals used in food production.
''Somewhere between a lot of chemicals and no chemicals there's a
happy medium,'' Nelson said at a news conference before performing
the first song of the 12-hour show in the Hoosier Dome.
''As experts, the farmers will have to tell you how much do they
need (and) how much are they forced to use,'' Nelson said. ''I think
that's the difference. If they can get enough money for a bushel of
corn, they don't have to drain that acre for every ounce that's in
it.''
Inside the arena, early arrivals among the sellout crowd of 45,000
settled in with blankets and pillows for the marathon event. Many of
the more popular performers, including Neil Young, Bonnie Raitt and
Don Henley, were not scheduled to perform until the final two hours.
Concertgoers said they were there not only to enjoy the music but
also to support to the family farmer, the cause that inspired the
formation of Farm Aid five years ago. The organization, through its
first three shows in 1985-87, raised $12 million and has distributed
some $9 million to churches and service agencies, hotlines and farm
organizations.
Carolyn Mugar, executive director of Farm Aid, said she did not know
how much the event would generate in revenues and donations. She and
Nelson have left open the possibility of more concerts as the need
for money arises.
Mugar said Farm Aid IV was arranged because the organization has run
out of money. It was staged two weeks before the nation observes the
20th anniversary of Earth Day in part as a way of stressting that the
farm and environmental causes are intertwined.
''When we restore the honor and sanctity of the family farmer, in
conjunction with Earth Day - which is not just lip service and not
just one event - we restore the sanctity and honor of Mother Earth
herself,'' Raitt said.
Environmental activists, including Chris Desser, executive director
of Earth Day 1990, and John O'Connor, executive director of the
National Toxics Campaign, also spoke out against ''brute chemical
farming.''
O'Connor said a third of the nation's farm crop is still lost to
insects and other pests, just as it was before World War II, despite
a tenfold increase in chemical use.
The lineup at the Hoosier Dome also included Dwight Yoakum, K.T.
Oslin, Lou Reed, Guns n' Roses, Richard Marx, Jackson Browne, John
Denver and a Soviet rock band, Gorky Park.
Huge black and white cutouts of farm workers with cows and farm
implements were the stage backdrop. Hanging on the left and right
sides of the stage were huge flags with the Farm Aid logo of a
tractor with an American flag.
Farm Aid's first concert in September 1985 was in Champaign, Ill.
Subsequent concerts were held in 1986 in Austin, Texas, and in 1987
in Lincoln, Neb.
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By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - It took scarcely a minute amid the hubbub of a
late afternoon House committee meeting to insert the unassuming
amendment into the clean air bill.
It meant the world to a bearded, slightly offbeat chemist at the
University of Denver 1,600 miles away.
But in the days that followed, it would bring chills to some
environmentalists, local air pollution control officials and the
Environmental Protection Agency.
The provision, now part of the massive and complex clean air bill
approved last week by the Energy and Commerce Committee, calls on
states to require as part of pollution control plans in scores of
cities use of a portable automobile pollution detection device
similar to a radar gun that pinpoints speeders.
The requirement is not in a Senate version of the bill, which passed
89-11 last week. It's not known if the amendment will survive future
congressional action.
The mobile pollution sensor is the invention of chemistry professor
Donald Stedman, who has been working on the project for 14 years and
has had a prototype ready since early 1987.
Until now, few people have been seriously interested in the sensor.
''It's been a terrific struggle. We've been going from month to
month ... to keep my group together,'' he said in an interview.
''Anytime I'm not teaching, I'm telling people about this.''
One of those who learned of Stedman's device was Rep. Joe Barton,
R-Texas, who sponsored the amendment requiring the devices as part of
air pollution cleanup programs.
Barton called it a ''common-sense solution'' and a ''cost-effective
way to identify the worst polluting automobiles.''
Known as a friend of oil interests, Barton sees the device as a
better way to combat air pollution - by getting the dirtiest cars off
the road - than in requiring clean fuels, including alternatives to
gasoline, or tougher exhaust controls.
Stedman also has done little to ingratiate himself with Denver area
pollution control officials - as he admits - by arguing his invention
would be a much better way to combat smog than the mandatory testing
and oxygenated fuels program now in use in the area.
Denver is among the most pollution-plagued cities in the nation.
Stedman said as many as several thousand of the devices - costing
about $50,000 apiece - might eventually be in use.
To test vehicles adequately, a city such as Denver would require
five of the mobile sensors, a state such as Illinois about 20 and
''in California you're talking between 50 and 100,'' he says.
None of the sensors has been produced commercially, although Stedman
said several companies have become interested. He and the university,
which holds the patent, would get percentages.
But Barton's amendment has not been received enthusiastically
everywhere.
The day after it was approved, the EPA sent a memo to all its
regional offices saying that while Stedman's invention ''may have
some merit'' and is being evaluated ''much work needs to be done
before remote sensing is a viable tool'' in air pollution control.
Richard Wilson, director of the EPA's Office of Mobile Sources,
expressed concern to Barton that use of the devices was being made
mandatory, arguing such a move was premature considering the
unanswered questions surrounding use of the device.
Among the concerns are that the device - for the time being, anyway
- is capable of detecting only carbon monoxide emissions and not
other chemicals that contribute significantly to smog.
Emission results also could change significantly depending on where
the sensor is located and how a vehicle is being driven, making
enforcement of violations difficult, critics maintain.
''This hasn't been tested and it's premature to make it a mandatory
requirement in the Clean Air Act,'' said Bill Becker, the Washington
representative for state air pollution control officials.
The Coalition for Safer, Cleaner Vehicles, a Washington-based
consumer and environmental group, also raised concerns about making
such devices mandatory, saying it brings up questions of fairness and
due process.
''It seems very unfair to test someone at a random stop where they
may be pressing on the gas pedal hard or their car might be cold and
not quite warmed up,'' said Gary Huggins, the group's executive
director.
Stedman insists those problems can be worked out. During a recent
visit to Washington to demonstrate his device, he was ecstatic about
the lift given his longtime project by the Barton amendment.
The two men had not known each other previously. Barton learned of
Stedman's sensor from a letter the professor had published in the
Wall Street Journal.
After the requirement was put into the clean air legislation,
''interest suddenly jumped,'' Stedman said. ''Two very nice gentlemen
in two very nice suits from a fairly large company came to visit me
(the next day), saying we'd really like to talk to you about this.''
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Benefit Urges Fans to Message Congress
By KEN KUSMER
Associated Press Writer
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Farm Aid IV mixed fund raising with political
lobbying in a 14-hour concert on behalf of the American family
farmer.
A sellout crowd of about 45,000 people at the Hoosier Dome heard
more than 60 musicians - including Elton John, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson
Browne and the band Crosby, Stills and Nash - perform in the Saturday
night show.
''It would be nice if there wasn't a need for Farm Aid. It would be
nice if our government's policies reflected a concern for families
and for farming. There's all kinds of things in this world that would
be nice. We have to fight to make this government responsive to our
needs,'' Browne said.
Donations for the fourth Farm Aid concert were still being tallied
Sunday, and final figures were not scheduled to be released until
today, said Farm Aid spokeswoman Linda Lewi. As of late Saturday,
$1.3 million had been raised, she said.
The concert came two weeks before the nation observes the 20th
anniversary of Earth Day, and Willie Nelson and other Farm Aid
leaders took the opportunity to announce the forging of a coalition
with farmers, environmentalists and consumers to work toward less use
of pesticides and other chemicals in food production and more support
for organic farming.
Postcards were distributed to concertgoers calling on Congress to
pass a 1990 farm bill that will help family farmers use fewer
chemicals and practice environmentally safe farming methods and to
provide a pricing structure that covers the cost of food production.
Rock star John Mellencamp, who helped organize the event, indicated
in an interview that federal farm policy has sacrificed the welfare
of the independent farmer to promote corporate agriculture concerns.
''I'm not giving up. The face of this nation changes by the men that
we admire, right, and I think that we haven't felt the backlash of
the last eight years yet. I think the '90s will reflect that,'' said
Mellencamp,
Mellencamp, Farm Aid President Nelson and fellow organizer Neil
Young all played during the final, all-star hour of the marathon
concert.
John made an unexpected appearance late in the program and performed
three songs. The British rock singer had been in Indianapolis to
visit AIDS patient Ryan White, who died Sunday.
''This one's for Ryan,'' John said before beginning ''Candle in the
Wind,'' a song he wrote about the tragic life of Marilyn Monroe. The
song drew the biggest ovation of the show.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson called for a moment of silence for White
during the concert. The civil rights activist and Democratic
politician visited White's family on Saturday, as did Nelson and
musician-actor Kris Kristofferson.
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Oil Company Reforms Emerge As Hot Political Issues
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Eds: This is another in a series of stories planned in advance of
20th anniversary observances for Earth Day this month.
By MICHAEL FLEEMAN
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Even an environmental debacle like the Huntington
Beach oil spill generates its own kind of gallows humor, including
this joke among residents:
Question: What do you get when you mix oil and water?
Answer: Politicians.
In this case, it seemed as if there were one politician for every
barrel of oil washing up on Surf City U.S.A.
So many politicians took to the blackened sands of Huntington Beach
to condemn the Feb. 7 spill from the ruptured American Trader tanker
that Mayor Tom Mays had to ask them to go through his office first so
they wouldn't interfere with the cleanup.
In this election year, talking tough against the oil companies, with
proposals to ban offshore drilling and to enact strict tanker safety
measures, adds up to smart politics.
For the first time in a decade, environmentalists, politicians and
even some oil industry executives expect this 20th anniversary year
of Earth Day to bring sweeping reform to the oil industry.
The reform movement is being pushed by oil spills in Alaska,
California, New York, New Jersey and Louisiana and a growing feeling
among Americans that more should be done to protect the environment.
Possible changes include requiring double hulls and bottoms on
tankers, shifting shipping lanes farther offshore, better charting of
the ocean bottom, improving procedures for oil spill cleanup, and
putting a fourth year-long moratorium on new offshore drilling.
''The interest in the general public in protecting the coastline is
at an all-time high,'' declared Ann Whitfield, executive director of
the Florida Public Interest Research Group.
The oil industry, meanwhile, worries about an overreaction that
could stifle U.S. oil production and return the country to the days
of oil embargoes and gas lines.
But even many oil officials concede more must be done to avoid
spills and to minimize damage when they occur.
''While it is impossible to guarantee that future accidents will
never happen, we are committed to working to prevent them and to
improving the industry's safety record,'' said James Benton,
executive director of the New Jersey Petroleum Council.
Benton spoke at a recent meeting between oil executives and
officials of New York and New Jersey, where four major spills in the
first 10 weeks of 1990 dumped almost 730,000 gallons of heating oil
and heavy crude into the Arthur Kill and Kill van Kull waterways
between New York City and northern New Jersey.
The first major reform is under consideration in Washington.
Legislation pending in Congress would require double hulls and double
bottoms on tankers. Engineers speculate that a double hull could have
prevented the Huntington Beach spill, apparently the result of the
tanker striking its own anchor, and lessened the effects of the Exxon
Valdez disaster, in which the tanker ripped open on a reef in
Alaska's Prince William Sound.
Eyes are also on President Bush, who pledged in his campaign to be
the ''environmental president,'' to see whether he will try to
reinstate oil and gas drilling in federal waters after the moratorium
expires this year.
The issue is of particular importance in California, where oil
companies have proposed developing millions of acres off the coasts
of central and Northern California. Off Florida, companies want to
drill in tracts north of the Keys.
Many member of Congress say that if Bush decides to resume
additional drilling, they are prepared to seek another moratorium.
''The administration is in a quagmire in the sense that the politics
of California, a very crucial gubernatorial race and the president's
own commitments in the state are in conflict with president's gut
instincts as a former oilman on offshore drilling,'' said Rep. Leon
Panetta, D-Monterey.
Some of the most active work on oil industry reforms is going on at
the state level.
Even before the Huntington Beach spill, the environment was a hot
political issue in California. All three candidates for governor -
U.S. Sen. Pete Wilson, state Attorney General John Van de Kamp and
former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein - have tried to one-up
each other in pledging love for Mother Earth.
Wilson, a Republican, is a longtime opponent of offshore drilling,
so much so that his stance strained relations with the White House in
the early months of the administration.
In addition, state Controller Gray Davis and Lt. Gov. Leo McCarthy
say their re-election is important to maintain their 2-1 lock on the
three-member State Lands Commission - and a virtual ban on additional
drilling.
''I'm a strong environmentalist and I'm committed to remaining a
good steward for California's magnificent coastline,'' Davis said.
''It doesn't take a genius to see that if you change one or two
people on that board you change the direction of California's
coast.''
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Environmental Study Includes Unusual Factors, Author Says
By MARTHA WAGGONER
Associated Press Writer
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - An environmental scorecard of the 50 states
that ranks Vermont at the top of the list and Alabama at the bottom
is more than a study of snail darters and whales, the report's author
said Tuesday.
The ''green index'' released by the Durham-based Institute for
Southern Studies also includes workplace safety and infant mortality.
''We're following the lead of citizens' groups who view the
environment as a public-health issue,'' said Bob Hall, research
director for the non-profit, independent institute and author of the
study.
For example, water quality influences cancer rates, so states are
ranked according to the number of cancer cases per 100,000, he said.
Infant mortality is part of the green index because that's ''an
indicator of what kind of commitment the state has toward public
health,'' Hall said. ''There's a correlation between public health
attention and environmental attention.''
The top five states were Vermont, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Rhode
Island and Connecticut. The bottom five were Tennessee, South
Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
The report examined 35 indicators of pollution, public health,
workplace safety and environmental safety. It ranked the 50 states on
a per capita or other basis to minimize differences in population
size. The report was based on studies conducted in the mid- to late
'80s, most of them conducted for the federal government, Hall said.
The study focused on the South, and concluded that the region has
become the nation's biggest waste dump.
Ned Farquhar, acting director of Vermont Natural Resources Council,
said he was surprised Vermont ranked No. 1.
''Our laws aren't that strong and our budget is pitifully low for
environmental protection,'' Farquhar said. ''But the people in our
towns all care a lot about the environment so I really think it all
comes back to individual action.''
State planning director George Hamilton, however, said the ranking
reflected government environmental policies.
''There is a strong environmental ethic in the state,'' Hamilton
said. ''It's a bipartisan ethic that has been around for 20 years.''
Hall said he was surprised Alabama brought up the rear of the
survey.
''There wasn't an area where they stood out,'' he said. ''... It was
a combination of having some significant problems and not having
policies, being slow in implementing good policies.''
Environmental officials in Alabama do not have enough information to
judge the report, said Catherine Lamar, a spokeswoman with the
Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
Pat Byington, executive director of the Alabama Conservancy
environmental organization, said he wasn't surprised by the state's
last-place finish.
''The state of Alabama has a lot of programs they need to institute,
environmental programs,'' Byington said. ''We do not have a worker
right-to-know law, we do not have a land acquisition program or a
toxics reduction program - a pollution prevention program. And we
currently do not have a comprehensive solid waste program, so we're
far behind.''
The Northeast and Great Lake states fared poorly on the institute's
poison index, which includes standard measures such as pollutants,
air quality and per capita number of Superfund sites.
But Hall said many of these states have taken aggressive action to
address their problems. Their high scores for policies, public health
and workplace safety initiative boost their overall rankings.
Most mountain states ''score poorly in all areas related to
government initiative, holding fast to the frontier belief that the
less regulation, the better,'' said the report.
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BC-EARTH-People Power, Adv 15,1225
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For Release Sunday, April 15, and Thereafter
In Dozens of Small Ways, People Can Improve the Environment
Eds: Another in a series marking the 20th anniversary of Earth Day.
With Logo EARTHDAY
By STEVE WILSTEIN
Associated Press Writer
Trusting the Earth's problems to politicians, industry and
scientists is not enough.
Environmentalists say everyone has the power to help protect
resources and clean up the air, water and land by shopping wisely and
disposing of garbage carefully. Doing dozens of little things, they
say, can make a big difference.
Individuals can also keep pressuring government and industry to
reduce pollution, global warming, ozone depletion, the disappearance
of resources and the rapid extinction of wildlife species.
''You have the ability to affect your environment individually, and
you have the ability to do even more working collectively,'' said
Tina Hobson, executive director of Renew America, a Washington, D.C.
foundation that monitors and encourages environmental programs around
the country.
Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich, an expert on ecology,
says the most important thing individuals can do is to become
informed and become involved.
''There's a lot you can do as an individual in things like
recycling, but none of that is going to work unless you get involved
in political action that gets at the core problems, gets at the basic
diseases rather than the symptoms,'' he said.
The basic problem is ''the scale of human activities relative to
what can be supported by the natural systems of the planet.''
Ehrlich, the author of 1968's ''The Population Bomb'' and, most
recently, ''The Population Explosion,'' warned that too many people,
too much consumption and too much damage by the technology that
supplies the items consumed are creating a world out of whack and
headed for disaster.
But disaster is not inevitable. People have plenty of ways to make
life safer and healthier. Some even save money.
The main guidelines are to reduce consumption; be energy efficient
at home, work and while traveling; don't waste water, fuel or other
resources; avoid products or actions harmful to the environment, and
recycle anything that can be used again. Disposable is out, reusable
is in.
Save paper. Start with this newspaper. Recycling it can help save a
tree.
''Depending on what newspapers you read, you could be using up one
tree every 10 or 12 weeks,'' according to Marjorie Lamb's book, ''Two
Minutes a Day for a Greener Planet.''
She notes that Canada, which supplies almost all the world's
newsprint, each year cuts down 247,000 more acres of trees than it
replants. The United States loses an acre of forest every 5 seconds.
Nearly half what Americans throw away is paper.
Lamb suggests other ways to save trees, such as reusing envelopes by
sticking labels over old addresses, reusing gift boxes, using rags
instead of paper towels, and using permanent coffee filters instead
of throwaway filters.
People can also ask for recycled paper at stationers and printers,
use cloth napkins instead of paper and cloth diapers instead of
disposables.
It's better, however, to use paper shopping bags than plastic,
better yet to avoid any bag when buying just a few items. Kids can do
their part by wrapping school lunches in paper rather than plastic or
aluminum foil, and using lunch boxes instead of a new bag each day.
Save water.
The United Nations ''Personal Action Guide for the Earth'' urges
people to install faucet aerators and water-efficient shower heads,
which use half to one-fifth as much water. Each 10-minute shower with
such a device can use up to 50 gallons less water.
The U.N. guide also suggests people turn off the water while
shaving, brushing teeth or scrubbing clothes; fix leaky pipes, valves
or faucets promptly; use low-flush toilets; run washing machines and
dishwashers only when full, and cut down on car-washing and
lawn-watering.
Save the air.
Many scientists believe the Earth's protective ozone layer is being
depleted by chlorofluorocarbons from refrigerators, air conditioners,
certain aerosols, plastic foam insulation, solvents and halon fire
extinguishers. Ozone depletion increases the likelihood of skin
cancer, global climate change, decreased crop yields and disruption
of the marine food chain, according to the U.N. Environmental
Program.
Consumers should avoid aerosols and other products containing CFCs,
ask local governments to collect and recycle CFCs from old
refrigerators and air conditioners, and ask auto service stations to
use equipment that captures CFCs during air conditioner repairs.
The U.N. guide also suggests avoiding clothes that require dry
cleaning, which uses toxic chlorinated solvents.
Save fuel.
Earth Day organizers advise people to walk or use public
transportation, carpools or bicycles, and invest in ample insulation,
weatherstripping and caulking.
Turning down thermostats a few degrees in winter and wearing warmer
clothes also can save energy and money. In summer, set the air
conditioner a few degrees higher than usual. Do not heat or cool
unused rooms, and use insulating shades and curtains on cold winter
nights and hot summer days.
Save food.
Animals raised for food in the United States eat enough grain to
feed more than five times the U.S. population. Consider how such food
production affects the environment and eat lower on the food chain -
vegetables, fruits and grains, advises the Utne Reader magazine of
Minneapolis.
If Americans ate 10 percent less meat, the 12 million tons of grain
saved annually could feed all the people in the world who now starve
to death each year, according to the United Nations.
Learn vegetarian recipes and encourage restaurants to serve
vegetarian foods. Organize potluck dinners and be creative with
leftovers. Buy organic food, but don't buy foods out of season. Grow
a garden rather than a lawn and plant fruit and nut trees.
Recycle.
People without local recycling programs should encourage neighbors
and officials to start one, says Renew America's Hobson. The group
provides information on the best programs in the country, which can
be used as models.
Recycling is not limited to paper, cans and glass and plastic
bottles. You can also recycle used oil, tires, scrap metal, scrap
wood, car batteries, mattresses, corrugated cardboard, aluminum and
organic waste.
The United States produces more than 11 billion tons of nonhazardous
solid waste each year, according to the Environmental Protection
Agency. If trucks carried away one ton each, that annual accumulation
of solid waste would fill 14,000 lanes of trucks bumper to bumper
from New York to Los Angeles.
Industry generates the greatest current in the waste stream, an
estimated 7.6 billion tons. Much of that is disposed on-site with
little scrutiny or regulation. Workers and nearby residents can urge
companies to recycle.
More than 100 million pounds of plastic are discarded into oceans
every year, according to the World Society for the Protection of
Animals. Plastic six-pack rings strangle or fatally maim many birds
and animals that become entangled in them.
''As consumers and citizens, we certainly make a lot of choices,
about the things we use, the stores we shop in and the people we vote
for,'' said Denise Fort, executive director of Citizens for a Better
Environment in San Francisco.
''We can make a huge difference. There are some things we have to
look to government to do. We need to demand that government
representatives act responsibly and clean up the environment. But a
lot can be done with individual action.''
End Adv for Sunday, April 15
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BC-EARTH-Cities and States, Adv 15,0962
$Adv15
For Release Sunday, April 15, and Thereafter
Cities, States and Industry Tackle Environmental Problems
With BC-EARTH-People Power
By STEVE WILSTEIN
Associated Press Writer
Cities, states and companies often complain they don't have the
money to solve environmental problems, but they've learned through
painful experience that the alternative - ignoring them - is even
more expensive.
After several environmental disasters over the last year, and with
the nation's attention turned toward Earth Day on April 22,
scientists, politicians and business leaders are looking at things
local governments can do now to save money in the future.
''We can't afford not to spend the money to clean up the
environment,'' said Dianne Feinstein, former San Francisco mayor and
now a gubernatorial contender. ''If we don't invest in waste water
treatment, solid waste treatment, sewage systems, recycling plants,
mass transit, it'll cost us billions or trillions in the future to
clean up everything.''
That message was driven home in places around the country faced with
the cleanup of hazardous wastes in dumpsites and of pesticides and
other toxic chemicals in groundwater.
Disasters such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and
February's spill off Huntington Beach in Southern California have
brought calls for stricter laws to prevent accidents and clean up
messes quickly when they occur.
The oil industry and others that use toxic chemicals are starting to
get the message.
''Our feeling is $1 of prevention is worth $10 or $100 years
later,'' said Mac Jeffery, environmental spokesman for IBM. ''We're
establishing manufacturing facilities that clean up problems at the
source.''
Local governments learned not to count on the federal government
during the Reagan years and are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward
the Bush administration, which is supporting a new, stronger clean
air bill.
Officials in New York, California, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Massachusetts, Washington, Oregon and other environmentally
progressive states are passing tough laws as well as seeking closer
cooperation with industry.
''Most of the environmental work is being done at the local and
state levels,'' said Tom Jorling, commissioner of the New York State
Department of Environmental Conservation. ''There's been very little
initiative coming from the federal government.''
Paul Ehrlich, Stanford biologist and one of the nation's best known
ecologists, has surprisingly kind words for industry.
''Industry has already done a lot,'' he said. ''A lot of the
increase in our energy efficiency over the past 20 years has been a
response of industry to the fact that energy is no longer to be
viewed as a free good.
''I have a lot more hope for industry than I have for the federal
government. We've had nine years of going backward there.''
Jorling said New York state officials, rather than relying only on
statutes, are working with IBM, based in Armonk, and Eastman Kodak
Co., in Rochester, to develop agreements on their use of toxic
chemicals.
''And it's not just those two,'' Jorling said. ''I just sat down
with 60 oil firms - they know they've got to perform better and we're
trying to figure out ways for them to do that.
''No longer are companies sitting back waiting for public policy to
develop,'' he said. ''Now they realize they have to be involved. The
big difference between the original Earth Day in 1970 and Earth Day
1990 is that now industry recognizes the environmental issue is not a
passing fad. It's here to stay and must be part of the way of doing
business.''
Getting businesses involved in preventing environmental damage and
shaping legislation doesn't mean states are letting industry dictate
terms.
''States must develop good, high quality environmental programs,''
Jorling said. ''Without that lever and credibility they're going to
be whipsawed by industry. Industry doesn't respect weakness, it
respects strength.''
San Francisco-based Chevron Corp., which promotes an image of
environmental concern but has been cited for toxic spills into the
bay and emissions into the air at its Richmond, Calif., refinery, is
wary of state officials.
''We seem to have more mavericks at the state level than the federal
level,'' said Lyn Arscott, Chevron's general manager of health,
environment and loss prevention. He complained about actions by the
state attorney general and a legal system that allows ''some not very
sensible initiatives to pop up in California.''
Arscott said Chevron recognizes ''the oil industry does not enjoy a
high level of credibility'' because of Valdez and Chevron's refinery
explosion.
''We're trying hard to improve our performance,'' he said. ''We hope
the public will meet us halfway. ... We'd like to encourage (using)
market forces in the regulatory process. Historically, (government)
has wanted to command and control. The law comes on from up high with
big fines. We'd like to set up some general guidelines and then have
a system of incentives.''
Jorling said the biggest ''recalcitrants'' in the corporate world
are in the auto industry.
''They say they can't meet requirements on emission standards, can't
build cars with better gas mileage, but it's crucial that they be
turned around because of their huge effect on the environment -
energy use, global warming, air pollution,'' Jorling said. ''They're
still back somewhere in the heyday of the robber barons.''
Top priorities for the 1990s, Jorling said, are the production of
durable, fuel-efficient cars and the eventual ''weaning from fossil
fuels'' to alternatives such as solar energy.
Ehrlich said the government ought to jack up gasoline taxes ''until
we're paying $3 a gallon, like the Europeans do.''
''You'd have to compensate poor people to make sure they can still
get to work,'' he said. ''But you'd raise a lot of revenue. You'd
help the global warming problem and other air pollution problems, and
save the roads and bridges by using fewer cars and more efficient
late-model cars.''
End Adv for Sunday, April 15
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AM-EARTH-Fashion, Adv 18,0981
$Adv18
For Release Wed AMs, April 18, and Thereafter
Fashion Industry Jumps Aboard Environmental Bandwagon
Eds: Another in a series of stories marking the 20th anniversary of
Earth Day.
By CATHERINE CROCKER
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - The Earth is in style.
Alarmed by the planet's dwindling resources, or propelled by the
belief that ecology helps sell clothes, fashion designers and
retailers have latched onto environmental issues with a gusto that
recalls the stampede to short skirts.
Tags on sportswear declare ''Don't Bungle the Jungle.'' Whales,
black panthers, tigers and giant pandas adorn T-shirts. Popular
fabric colors include earth tones and the bright hues of the rain
forest. Catalogs are printed on recycled paper. Glossy ads for
fashion designers invite consumers to donate money to environmental
groups.
''So many companies are getting on the environmental bandwagon,
because many polls indicate that the environment is the predominant
social issue of the '90s,'' said Leslie Gottlieb of the Council on
Economic Priorities.
Women's Wear Daily has been swamped with news releases announcing
the introduction of new lines of clothing with an eco-conscience,
said Maryellen Gordon, a WWD sportswear news editor.
''The industry does have a history of being involved in humanitarian
causes,'' she said. ''But I don't believe every one of these
companies is concerned with the environment. ... By printing 'Save
the Whale' on a T-shirt, they think they can bring in a lot of
money.''
''I'm sure part of it is corporations wanting to position themselves
in a positive way with the public,'' said Ron Geatz, a spokesman for
the Nature Conservancy, a private foundation that buys parcels of
threatened land to protect the habitats of rare and endangered plants
and animals.
Geatz added that the corporate heads leading the way seem to be
those most personally involved.
Charles Dayan, president of Bonjour clothing, became a corporate
activist for the environment several summers ago when syringes and
other debris washed up on the beach at his New Jersey vacation home.
''We couldn't go to the water. We couldn't let the kids play
there,'' he said. ''That's when we realized it was getting too close
to us and something had to be done.''
Now each item of Bonjour merchandise - jeans and shirts, sunglasses
and socks - bears a tag with tips on how to save water and reduce
pollutants. The cost to Bonjour, Dayan said, is ''in the millions.''
''I really don't know if it will sell one extra jean or watch,''
Dayan said. ''I doubt it.''
Other companies like Ninety, Esprit, Ellen Tracy and the United
Stars of America division of J.G. Hook are donating profits to
environmental causes.
Patagonia, an outdoor outfitter based in Ventura, Calif., has
donated 10 percent of its annual pretax profits to environmental
groups since 1984. This year, the total will reach about $1 million.
Patagonia's catalogs feature essays on the environment. The company
has reduced waste output at its headquarters by 62 percent by cutting
back on paper products and recycling whatever it can.
Some customers choose Patagonia products ''because of where the
profits go,'' said Kevin Sweeney, a company spokesman. ''Last year,
we gave away twice as much as we spent in advertising.''
But the line often blurs between promoting environmental causes and
promoting a product. The Nature Conservancy struck deals with two
fashion companies, Ellen Tracy and Esprit, after being approached
with ''a couple dozen'' offers, Geatz said.
Ellen Tracy's ads show a model in a sunny orange jacket over olive
pants, standing on a pristine beach. The tagline reads, ''The
clothing ... perfect for spring. The background ... perfect
forever.''
The conservancy's phone number is displayed in small print.
''We've always shot our (spring) ads on the beach. ... We added the
tagline to tie into the Nature Conservancy thing - kind of cute to
bring it all together,'' said Claire Fay, a spokeswoman for Ellen
Tracy.
She said the company's owner, Herbert Gallen, made ''a substantial
donation'' to the Nature Conservancy and paid a $15 membership fee
for each of Ellen Tracy's 200 employees.
Esprit contributes $1 each time it sells a $25 tote bag imprinted
with images of bighorn sheep and Little Kern golden trout. The
company's spring catalog, printed on recycled paper, opens with a
discourse on the environment. The background is a photograph of a
swimsuit-clad model playing in a spray of water.
''Pollution is by and large the result of an economic system gone
out of control,'' the ad says. ''Consumers should evaluate carefully
what they need, and buy accordingly.''
The ad implores people ''to temper their appetites.'' Esprit, it
notes, has already begun to do so - at its San Francisco
headquarters, it has reduced the use of paper in the business
department and the cafeteria. The company plans to hire an
eco-manager to head environmental programs.
''Before telling our customers what to do, we need to do our own
homework,'' said Esprit spokeswoman Celeste Alleyne.
But critics scoff at the notion of the fashion industry being a
friend of the environment.
''The irony is that we're talking about a business based on
premeditated waste,'' said Stuart Ewen, the chairman of the
Communications Department at Hunter College in New York City. ''If
you were to do a study of the history of product obsolescence, the
model would be fashion.''
At factory level, other ecological concerns surface.
''The next step we have to take is to move to our suppliers, to make
sure (the clothes) are made in an environmentally safe way,'' said
Sweeney, the Patagonia spokesman.
Esprit and Ellen Tracy are studying how to make production of their
clothes eco-friendly. Bonjour president Dayan said he wrote to
manufacturers all over the world instructing them to use
biodegradable plastic bags and soaps, as well as recycled cardboard.
However, he acknowledged, ''We can't force them to do it.''
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a026 0112 12 Apr 90
PM-News Interest,0472
Bush's Broccoli Ban Well Known to Public, Survey Finds
By W. DALE NELSON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush's distaste for broccoli is getting
nearly six times as much public attention as Earth Day, according to
a survey of people's attentiveness to the news.
The Times Mirror Center for The People and The Press said Wednesday
that its interviewers asked 1,212 people age 18 and older what
vegetable it is that Bush recently said he wouldn't eat.
Seventy-six percent said broccoli, the right answer. Four percent
named some other vegetable. The rest refused to answer or said they
didn't know.
By contrast, 13 percent knew that April 22 is being observed as
Earth Day to honor the environment. Fifteen percent gave a wrong
answer and 72 percent said they didn't know when asked what was
special about the date.
On another question, the center reported that 74 percent of those
responding said they approved of Bush's overall performance. Sixteen
percent disapproved.
Sixty-four percent said they were optimistic that the president
would make progress in solving the country's long-term problems.
In response to more specific questions, 39 percent said Bush was
doing a good or excellent job in dealing with long-term economic
problems. The corresponding percentage was 20 percent on health care
problems and 32 percent on education and the environment. On all
issues, the largest group, from 39 percent to 46 percent, said he was
doing only fair.
The survey also found, for the fifth month in a row, that Americans
paid more attention to foreign news than domestic news.
The organization listed 18 news stories and asked people which was
the most important.
Forty percent cited an international story, with 21 percent naming
Lithuanian independence. Also mentioned were other political
developments in the Soviet Union, Germany and elsewhere in Eastern
and Central Europe. Two percent named the release of black leader
Nelson Mandela from a South African prison.
Four percent mentioned domestic stories, including oil spills, the
NCAA basketball playoffs, the death of 87 people in a fire at a
social club in New York and the attempt in Idaho to pass a bill that
would severely restrict abortions.
Ten percent named stories not on the list, 43 percent said they
didn't know and 2 percent refused to answer. This adds up to only 99
percent because the percentages were rounded to the nearest full
number.
The survey results are based on telephone interviews conducted under
the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates from April 5-8,
with the 1,212 respondents interviewed by The Gallup Organization.
The results are subject to a sampling error of plus or minus three
percentage points.
The Times Mirror Center for The People and The Press is an arm of
Times Mirror Corp., which owns the Los Angeles Times and other
publishing and broadcasting enterprises.
AP-NY-04-12-90 0402EDT
a027 0116 12 Apr 90
PM-Gobie Arrested,0202
Rep. Frank Case Figure Arrested
WASHINGTON (AP) - Steve Gobie, the former paid lover of Rep. Barney
Frank, D-Mass., faces arraignment on charges of marijuana possession
and destruction of property, according to a televised report.
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PM-EARTH-Farming, Adv 18,1004
$Adv18
For Release Wed PMs, April 18, and Thereafter
Some Farmers Practice Earth Day Every Day
Eds: This is another in a series of stories planned in advance of
20th anniversary observances for Earth Day.
With LaserPhoto
By JOE BIGHAM
Associated Press Writer
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Farmers, by definition, engage in long-term
love affairs with the land. And American farmers, romanticized for
generations as providers to this nation and millions abroad, have
been hailed as the world's most productive.
But for some, like Wynette Sills and her husband, Ed, rice growers
in the Sacramento Valley, reaping ever greater bounty from their land
has become less important than caring for it. As Mrs. Sills put it,
''The soil is the foundation of all else.''
The Sillses are among many farmers who have adopted conservation
methods in response to recent challenges from environmentalists that
U.S. farmers are too dependent on pesticides, irrigation and
expensive fertilizers.
The Sillses no longer burn rice stubble, which releases clouds of
smoky pollution. Instead, they plow it under and plant a cover crop
to restore to the soil the nitrogen needed to nourish crops.
''Unless the soil is healthy, it is hard for plants to be healthy,''
said Mrs. Sills, a former University of California farm adviser.
Bryce Lundberg also plows rice straw back into the soil to work as a
fertilizer, although many growers in the valley shun the practice
because the straw can harbor pests. It can also be costly in the
short run because it requires leaving up to half the farm's 6,000
acres fallow for a year to give the straw and cover crop time to
break down and regenerate the land.
''You've got to put something back,'' said Lundberg, whose
grandfather started the farm. ''That's what stewardship is all
about.''
Lundberg and the Sillses are among a growing number of farmers
practicing stewardship of the land as implied in Genesis. They
practice Earth Day every day by trying farm management techniques
such as integrated pest management, sustainable agriculture and
organic farming.
''Integrated pest management involves using beneficial insects and
basically keeping a real close eye on your (damaging) insect
populations and trying to get by with as little pesticide use as
possible,'' said orange grower Shawn Stevenson. ''It's advantageous
to the environment and myself because pesticides are very
expensive.''
Peter Goodell, a University of California farm adviser, warns,
however, that not all pests have been matched with beneficial bugs to
control them. The Medfly, for example, would chomp quickly through
California's fruit orchards if an infestation in urban Los Angeles
wasn't being checked with extensive aerial spraying.
Other farmers turn to the university's Sustainable Agriculture
Program to learn ways to improve their land by restoring its
nutrients.
''The cornerstone to a lot of these production systems is some sort
of soil-building program, whether you use a cover crop or add organic
matter such as compost or manure,'' said Jill Auburn, a staff member
in the university program. ''A lot of growers, even if they use
commercial fertilizers, add compost or manure to improve the soil,
improve water infiltration.''
Cover crops offer multiple benefits, she said.
''When a grower puts in a cover crop, he or she may do it to improve
one thing, say hold water or add nutrients,'' Ms. Auburn said. ''But
it also does other things such as providing habitat for beneficial
insects. So one change often changes the whole production system on
the farm.''
Organic farming, growing crops without applying chemicals, is the
best known of the new farming methods.
Most organic growers operate on a small scale, but the concept is
moving onto larger commercial farms. Some growers of table grapes are
switching to organics, pressed by the demands of farm labor leader
Cesar Chavez for a ban on pesticides.
Steve Pavich has long grown table grapes organically. He calls his
1,400 acres of organic grapes ''environmental capitalism,'' defined
as ''taking the good that goes on in the world and making a few
dollars out of it.''
Despite such efforts, environmental critics contend farmers
generally do too little to protect the land and water.
In California, now enduring a fourth straight year of drought, the
pressure is on agriculture, which uses more than 80 percent of all
water consumed in the state, to irrigate more efficiently.
Environmental groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council,
looking at huge federal projects that allow farmers to harness and
tap Sierra Nevada streams, want subsidies eliminated and fisheries
restored.
''Efficient water use involves more than simply using the most
efficient irrigation technology, although that is part of what needs
to happen,'' said Karen Garrison, an NRDC consultant. ''It means
adopting pricing systems that encourage efficient use.''
Water districts that have tried tiered pricing, charging higher
rates for water use above a certain base level, have saved 10 percent
to 15 percent of their supply, Ms. Garrison asserted.
And the land itself can be touchy, as growers on the west side of
the San Joaquin Valley who use large-scale irrigation found out.
Water coursing through irrigation canals leaches salts and toxic
selenium from the subsoil; the poisoned runoff turns drainage ponds
brackish, damaging the land and harming nesting birds. Now,
researchers think eucalyptus trees and salt bushes planted at the
ends of fields may absorb most tainted drainage water.
Most of California's 83,000 farmers still use conventional spraying
methods. But as protests against pesticides increase, more are
adopting such techniques as sustainable agriculture and integrated
pest management - unknown when the first Earth Day was held two
decades ago.
''The whole theme of our program,'' said Ms. Auburn, ''is really
resource conservation: concentrating on practices that are good for
the environment, good for soil, good for the human community - people
working on farms and people who consume what agriculture produces.''
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a033 0144 14 Apr 90
PM-Owl Rally,0506
Pro-Logging Rally Draws Thousands
LaserPhoto PD1
By WILLIAM C. CRUM
Associated Press Writer
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Loggers, mill workers and their families fear
they will be forgotten under an emerging national policy to limit
logging of never-cut timber to protect spotted owls.
On Friday, 8,000 to 10,000 people rallied in Pioneer Square to
protest the policy.
Clad in yellow caps and ribbons, the ralliers heard U.S. Sen. Bob
Packwood, R-Ore., tell them the agenda of environmentalists could be
condensed into two words: ''No jobs.''
Environmentalists argue that old-growth timber in the Northwest must
be protected to save the northern spotted owl from extinction. They
say the forest owl cannot survive outside the complex ecosystem
anchored by centuries-old trees.
But Oregonians at the rally, and some of their elected officials,
echoed Packwood's economic fears.
''We think this potentially could have the largest impact on the
Northwest since the Depression, economically,'' Douglas County
Commissioner Doug Robertson said.
''It's come to the point that if we don't stand up and be counted,
we're going to suffer the consequences, and the consequences are
going to be severe.''
A panel of scientists recommended to Congress on April 4 that
millions of acres of Northwest old-growth forest be set aside as owl
habitat. The exact locations of the habitat are under study. Packwood
wants Congress to reduce the amount of recommended forest that would
be set aside for the owl.
It's up to Congress to decide by this fall how much of the region's
old-growth timber can be cut and how much owl habitat should be
protected.
Organizers of the rally said 350 businesses around the state closed
so their employees could attend. Some schools gave students excused
absences so they could join their parents.
Officials of Douglas County, rated by the U.S. Forest Service as the
most timber-dependent county in Oregon, gave 25 to 30 county workers
the day off with pay so they could attend the rally. In the Linn
County community of Sweet Home, 105 businesses closed and about 500
people made the 85-mile trip to Portland.
Bob and Susan Kasting, owners of the Busy Bee restaurant in Sweet
Home, joined the caravan. Kasting said a shutdown of the timber
industry would devastate his business.
''If they can't work, they can't eat,'' he said.
Police reported several scuffles between environmentalists and
timber industry supporters on the edge of the crowd. The odor of
smoke bombs wafted across the square.
Portland police spokesman Dave Simpson said officers took three
people who appeared to be timber industry supporters into custody.
The three seemed to be intoxicated and were held until they could
sober up, but weren't charged with any crimes, Simpson said.
During the rally, dozens of log trucks circled downtown on the
freeways, occasionally blowing their horns.
Evelyn Badger of the Oregon Lands Coalition, a pro-industry group
that organized the rally, said Congress would be asked to set aside
forest land specifically for timber harvests.
''We are the dirty-hands people who feed, clothe and shelter this
nation,'' she said.
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a203 0902 14 Apr 90
BC-News Shows, Advisory,0202
Here is a partial listing of Sunday's TV News shows:
ABC's ''This Week With David Brinkley'' - William K. Reilly,
administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; Denis Hayes,
chairman, Earth Day 1990; Michael Oppenheimer, scientist,
Environmental Defense Fund; Patrick Michaels, environmental
scientist, University of Virginia, on Earth Day's 20th anniversary.
CBS's ''Face the Nation With Lesley Stahl'' - Senate Majority Leader
George Mitchell, D-Maine; Robert Reich, Harvard University professor
of political economy; Martin Anderson, senior fellow, Hoover
Institution, on U.S.-Soviet relations.
NBC's ''Meet the Press'' - Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., from Jerusalem, on
U.S. relations in the Middle East.
CNN's ''Newsmaker Sunday'' - Rep. Timothy Penny, D-Minn., Select
Committee on Hunger; David Holdridge, Catholic Relief Services;
Andrew Natsios, Agency for International Development, Girma Amare,
Ethiopian Emassy; Tesfai Ghermazien, Eritrean People's Liberation
Front, on famine in Ethiopia.
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CBS' ''60 Minutes'' - Reports on East St. Louis, Ill., one of the
nation's poorest cities; on a rabbi who believes in recognizing the
heroic acts of non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews from the
Nazis, and on Third World children whose parents airlift them from
countries in turmoil to West Germany, where foreign children are
treated as nationals.
The AP
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a310 2315 15 Apr 90
PM-Greenhouse Conference, Bjt,0665
Administration to Argue for Further Study on Global Warming
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush will ask a 17-nation conference
this week to examine the economic impact of global warming, but the
administration plans to argue it's too early to propose specific
measures to deal with the problem, officials say.
The White House's cautious approach in developing responses to
global warming is expected to unleash renewed criticism from some
European countries that the United States is failing to provide
leadership in dealing with the so-called ''greenhouse'' effect.
The Bush administration has maintained that while there is
widespread agreement that man-made pollutants are causing the earth
to become warmer, there remain too many unanswered questions to
warrant pollution controls that could have widespread economic
implications.
The president is hosting a White House conference on the greenhouse
effect on Tuesday, just days before next Sunday's Earth Day
observance. During his 1988 campaign, Bush said such a conference was
a top priority and would be held in his first year as president.
Senior advisers on economics, science and the environment from 17
nations plan to attend, making it the first gathering on the subject
with government officials representing such a broad spectrum of
interest.
Senior Bush advisers said they hoped the conference would for the
first time give equal weight to economic as well as environmental
issues related to global warming.
''We hope it will raise the level of debate ... on the science and
economics of global change,'' said Michael Boskin, chairman of the
president's Council of Economic Advisers, who will be one of the
three conference co-chairmen.
Administration officials cautioned in briefings with reporters that
the gathering is not intended to produce any blueprint for dealing
with global warming. Instead, the officials said the administration
will emphasize the need for further scientific studies and
incorporating the economic issues involved.
Last week, the president's chief science adviser, Allen Bromley,
criticized those who advocate ''slam-dunk solutions'' to global
warming. He said too many scientific and economic uncertainties
remain to map out specific measures.
''We cannot sail blindly into the future,'' he declared. Bromley
will serve as a conferenceco-chairman along with Boskin and Michael
Deland, chairman of the president's Council on Environmental Quality.
But even before many conference delegates arrived, officials from
several European countries complained about the Bush administration's
emphasis on further research and its refusal to discuss specific
action plans to deal with the greenhouse issue.
''Some delegates will advocate more than just research,'' said an
official from one European country, asking that he not be identified
further. ''We want to stress that research should not be a substitute
for action.''
Some of the Europeans plan ''to push the Americans pretty hard,''
said another European, also speaking anonymously.
A number of European countries, including The Netherlands and West
Germany, have called for the industrial nations to commit themselves
to a stabilization of carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2000.
Carbon dioxide, primarily from the burning of fossil fuels, accounts
for more than half the ''greenhouse'' pollutants. Such curbs would
require significant increases in energy efficiency or cuts in energy
use.
William Reilly, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said
Sunday the president is committed to an international treaty on
global warming, but he too cautioned that more scientific evidence is
needed.
''We have to be cautious, careful and take out something of an
insurance policy,'' he said on ABC's ''This Week With David
Brinkley.''
While most scientists agree that man-made pollutants are enveloping
the earth and causing it to warm, they are unsure about the eventual
severity of the warming.
Some computer models have suggested a 4-degree to 9-degree
Fahrenheit increase in global temperatures, but some scientists said
those projections are uncertain and may not adequately take into
account the effects of clouds or other factors that might have a
counteracting effect.
''What we do not know is the timing, the magnitude or the rate of
the (temperature) increase,'' said Bromley.
AP-NY-04-16-90 0159EDT
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a053 0856 16 Apr 90
PM-EARTH-Yellow Creek, Adv 20,1225
$Adv20
For Release Fri PMs, April 20, and Thereafter
Yellow Creek: A Microcosm of America's Grassroots Environmental
Movement
Eds: Another in a series of stories marking the 20th anniversary of
Earth Day.
LaserPhoto PK2 of April 13
By ROB WELLS
Associated Press Writer
MIDDLESBORO, Ky. (AP) - Yellow Creek used to run black for miles,
with a stench that made people retch. Red blisters disfigured fish in
the stream.
People downstream blamed pollution from a tannery and aged sewage
treatment plant in this town of 13,000 for their neighbors' cancer
deaths as well as their foul well water.
In 1983, the city engineer testified that 2.5 million gallons of raw
or partly treated sewage had been dumped into Yellow Creek that year
alone.
Today, Yellow Creek sparkles as it winds quietly through the thickly
forested Appalachian hills. People who live along the creek say water
quality is probably the best they've seen in a decade and credit the
$7.7 million sewage treatment plant built in 1986.
Credit is also due to the Yellow Creek Concerned Citizens, a local
environmental group that has labored since 1980, filing lawsuits,
lobbying Congress, holding candlelight memorials for people they
believe were fatally sickened by pollution, occupying city hall to
demand that the creek be cleaned.
But the black tide, although receded, left behind a legacy of health
questions and lingering legal challenges. Neighbors suspect that
years of tannery pollution deposited a layer of toxic sediment in the
creek bed. And they're worried that a new court agreement will loosen
pollution regulations.
Over the years, word of Yellow Creek and its lessons has stretched
well beyond this mountainous corner of southeastern Kentucky. The
tactics and victories of the Yellow Creek Concerned Citizens are
being studied by environmental groups across America, and in some
cases, around the world.
''Remember, this struggle for the small community of Yellow Creek is
in no way the only one,'' said M.M. Chiputa of the Southern African
Environmental Network of Zaire. ''We have it, you have it and they
have it.''
Yellow Creek has gained such attention largely because of Larry
Wilson, the president of the citizens group. Wilson is environmental
programs director at the Highlander Institute in New Market, Tenn.,
which holds training sessions for social activists who hail from
Bhopal, India, to Dayhoit, Ky.
As a polished insider of the national environmental movement, Wilson
wields influence that last month drew more than 100 activists from
Massachusetts to Arkansas to a meeting on the future of Yellow Creek.
John O'Connor, executive director of the National Toxics Campaign in
Boston, struck a common theme among many of the speakers at the March
31 meeting.
''We kind of feel if they can get away with poisoning people in
Yellow Creek, they can get away with poisoning anyone in the United
States,'' O'Connor said.
Yet Yellow Creek is anything but poisonous today, according to the
Environmental Protection Agency.
EPA environmental engineer Ron Barrow said results of a study of
creek water and surface sediment, to be released later this month,
will ''show significant improvements'' over a 1982 study of creek
pollution.
A standard EPA test using water fleas showed they not only survived
but also reproduced in full-strength effluent from the new sewage
plant.
And Dirk Anderson, manager of the Middlesboro Tannery Co., says it
''has done an excellent job in meeting state and federal guidelines''
and ''installed the most efficient pretreatment system in the tanning
industry today.''
He says the tannery's waste water ''is one of the best discharges in
the United States'' and asks, ''What is the controversy?''
To many residents, the controversy remains vivid.
An advisory warning residents of Bell County since the early 1980s
not to swim in the creek, drink its water or eat its fish is still in
force.
Wilson asserts that he ''feels really comfortable'' in estimating
that 100 deaths in the valley from cancer, leukemia and other illness
can be linked to the pollution.
A 1988 study of Bell County cancer rates, while failing to tie the
illness to creek pollution, did show that residents face an increased
risk of cancer.
''Those cancers that have been linked to occupational exposure to
tannery work tend to be higher in Bell County than the comparison
groups,'' said the report by Lorann Stallones, an epidemiologist with
the University of Kentucky Medical Center.
And a study done in the early 1980s by Vanderbilt University's
Center for Health Services indicated that residents who drank well
water tended to have higher rates of miscarriages, kidney and
digestive ailments.
A $31 million lawsuit filed by residents against the tannery in 1983
requested long-term health monitoring, a proposal supported then by a
leading state health official.
''Toxic chemicals often take many years to produce their effects,
and certainly there have been significant exposures in the past
because of the tannery effluent,'' Dr. Arthur L. Frank of the
University of Kentucky Medical Center said in a statement for the
lawsuit.
No long-term monitoring is underway, and the lawsuit is still
pending in state court.
Many of these concerns deal less with the creek's current water
quality and more with the sediment on its bottom. A University of
Louisville chemist probing the creek bed in 1987 found deep deposits
of chromium, a byproduct of tanning. In research by the National
Cancer Institute, chromium is suspected of causing cancer in humans.
W. Hank Graddy III, attorney for the citizens' group, said the study
indicated chromium was still accumulating ''even after all these
years of litigation and trying (to) ... require them to adopt
controls.''
Barrow, the EPA engineer, and Bill Phillips, an attorney for the
agency, said they were not aware of any complaints about chromium
deposits until a reporter posed questions about the matter earlier
this month.
That reaction, along with other official stances, has made Yellow
Creek residents suspicious of government regulators, especially the
EPA.
Creek residents are worried, for example, about a new court document
signed by the city, the tannery and the EPA that will alter the
amount of chromium, cyanide, mercury, and bacteria allowed in tannery
wastewater sent to the sewage plant.
Graddy, Wilson and others contend the agreement will increase the
permissable amounts and cause Yellow Creek to be polluted again.
Attorneys for the city, tannery and EPA all say it would tighten
pollution regulations, not make the situation worse.
The agreement amends a 1985 consent decree that settled a 1984
lawsuit filed by the Justice Department. That suit alleged numerous
violations of EPA regulations because raw sewage was spilling into
the creek.
The disagreement is so strong because each side is comparing the new
document to a different prior arrangement: the officials assert the
provisions strengthen the 5-year-old consent decree, and the
environmentalists say they are weaker than those in an operative
pollution permit dating from 1985.
The citizens' group also opposes the agreement because it would
reduce the fines levied against the city and tannery. Together, they
have been fined at least $1.62 million for federal pollution
violations, but collections would total only $177,400 under the
pending amendment.
''The burden of proof is on the victims here,'' Wilson said,
''because government agencies and industry already have the money and
lawyers in place to defend their position. ...
''We're overwhelmed,'' he said. ''We're fighting life and death.''
End Adv for Fri PMs, April 20
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a054 0907 16 Apr 90
PM-Business Mirror, Adv 17,0631
$adv17
For release PMs Tuesday, April 17
Ecology Comes of Age in Marketing World
By JOHN CUNNIFF
AP Business Analyst
NEW YORK (AP) - In an economy gone ecological, some of the old
marketing concepts that once could be relied upon to sell products
have developed a reputation as bad as noxious chemicals.
In the best of the marketing tradition, however, you'll find few
companies complaining. While their tested concepts have been
degraded, they have embraced the new. What's new sells, and they know
it.
They accept the idea that they just can't use ''disposable'' without
accepting consequences, and that in selling cars and gasoline they
must steer clear of horsepower claims and talk about low mileage and
clean burning.
In cereals, health is tops and taste is now secondary. In a
cholesterol-conscious world the beef industry talks about leanness
rather than juiciness, and fast-food outlets are forced to reconsider
their recipes.
Annual reports of paper companies show clean streams rather than
log-filled ones, and those of heavy manufacturers are more likely to
show the factory's beautiful front lawn than the parts inventory in
the rear.
In marketing today you must be against pollution, for recycling,
against fat and for lean, for peace rather than military might, and
view diets as necessary to good health rather than for making a
person swim-suit slim.
You can do no wrong if you alins, opportunities for minorities, community
mindedness, family life.
While such concerns have forced almost every company in America to
rethink its values and recast its image, the effort has not been
without benefits. Like anything else, these issues can be used to
promote goods and services.
In short, and in a marketing sense, those movements designed to
improve the quality of life have come of age. They are powerful
enough to sell goods and services.
While the observance of Earth Day on April 22 is the proximate
reason for all the attention being given such issues, they have been
developing for a long time, simultaneously with a weakening of
resistance.
Twenty years ago, for example, some of the nation's biggest paper
companies were reluctant to spend the nine-figure sums required to
clean up their operations, which were among the largest polluters of
waterways.
The Council On Economic Priorities, a volunteer group, began rating
them on compliance with environmental standards, and discovered that
paper companies with the best environmental records tended to have
the highest price-earnings ratios on their stocks. It helped sell
environmental issues.
Peace became a practical, dollar and sense issue too. Various groups
developed mutual funds that included shares of companies deemed
peaceful, that is, not connected with military matters in any way.
Some did fairly well.
Health consciousness was being raised at about the same time, and
when President Jimmy Carter denounced the three-martini lunch as a
waste of money it already was on its way out. Liquor consumption
statistics document it.
The consumer movement, which began even before the environmental,
health and women's movements, was then at full strength, denouncing
the very notions that bigger was better, that glitz was chic, that
exclusive was better.
All movements develop their radical fringes and tend to be scorned
at some time by some people, but if they have the goods, so to speak,
they gain acceptance, even if grudgingly.
Acceptance is grudging no more for many of the movements that began
in the 1960s and 1970s. They've come a long way, and you know it when
corporate marketing people use their themes to sell goods and
services.
End Adv PMs Tuesday, April 17.
AP-NY-04-16-90 1156EDT
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a218 1131 16 Apr 90
AM-BRF--Life Logo,0128
Life Magazine Changes Logo Color for Earth Day
NEW YORK (AP) - Life magazine's red and white logo is turning green
in May to commemorate Earth Day. It's only the second time in the
magazine's 53-year history that it has changed the colors.
The only other time was when it appeared in black in 1963 after
President Kennedy's assassination.
''The last time Life's logo changed color, it marked a moment of
national mourning,'' said Jim Gaines, managing editor. ''This time
we're hoping to sound an alarm that may prevent worldwide mourning by
future generations.''
The May issue includes several articles about the environment,
including a cover story on trees. Earth Day is April 22.
The magazine's white letters on a red background logo was introduced
Nov. 23, 1936.
AP-NY-04-16-90 1428EDT
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a231 1324 16 Apr 90
AM-Greenhouse Conference, Bjt,0746
Administration Criticized for Environmental Inaction
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Delegates from 17 nations gathered for a White
House conference on global warming amid criticism Monday from some
participants and environmentalists that the Bush administration isn't
dealing with the problem.
Senior administration officials said the United States will call for
increased international research on both the science of global
warming and the economic implications of the ''greenhouse'' effect
when the two-day conference begins Tuesday.
But as delegates arrived, environmentalists chastised President Bush
for not calling for specific actions to ease the global warming
problem, including commitments to make specific reductions in
greenhouse pollutants.
The Sierra Club, which announced a TV advertising campaign to
highlight concerns about global warming, called the White House
conference an attempt by the administration to shift the focus of the
issue away from the need for pollution controls to a debate over
economic considerations.
''It's really a smoke screen for the administration's inaction on
global warming,'' said Daniel Becker of the Sierra Club. ''We know
enough now to begin acting on to curb global warming today.''
Some conference participants also expressed concern about the heavy
U.S. focus on more research.
''In spite of remaining uncertainties on some aspects of the issue,
an effective response policy must be established now, without any
further delay,'' said a statement issued on behalf of the 12 nations
attending from the European Community.
Laurnes Jan Brinkhorst, director-general for the environment of the
European Community's Council of Ministers, and Padraig Flynn,
environmental minister of Ireland, said there was an ''urgent need
for an effective response policy'' while additional research is under
way.
Senior administration officials have reiterated in recent days that
Bush will offer no new policy proposals to curb the manmade pollution
that scientists agree is causing the earth to warm.
Bush, in remarks that will open the conference, was expected instead
to focus on the need for additional research to resolve both
scientific uncertainties about global warming and establish clearer
estimates on economic costs.
The conference, which is being held just days before Sunday's
celebration of Earth Day, fulfills a campaign promise Bush made to
hold an international conference on global warming early in his
presidency.
Representatives to the meeting are senior cabinet-level advisers on
economics, science and the environment from 17 nations, including the
European community, Japan and Brazil.
Bush advisers said they hoped the conference would, for the first
time, give equal weight to economic and environmental issues related
to global warming and ''ensure the economics will be injected ...
into all future international forums'' on the subject.
''We hope it will raise the level of debate ... on the science and
economics of global change,'' said Michael Boskin, chairman of the
president's Council of Economic Advisers and one of the conference
co-chairmen.
A number of European countries, including the Netherlands and West
Germany, have advocated that industrial nations commit to a
stabilization of carbon dioxide emissions by 2000 through a variety
of programs reducing energy needs.
Carbon dioxide, which is produced in the burning of fossil fuels, is
responsible for about half the greenhouse pollutants.
Environmentalists have argued that a wide range of actions could be
taken to conserve energy and reduce greenhouse pollutants by
requiring the manufacture of more fuel-efficient cars and promoting
energy savings in other ways in homes and businesses.
The Sierra Club, which has more than 500,000 members, will take that
message to the public with a series of public service ads featuring
actors such as William Shatner, John Ritter and Jane Alexander.
The Bush administration has maintained that while there is
widespread agreement that manmade pollutants are causing the earth to
warm, it's not clear how severe the problem will be to warrant
pollution controls that could have widespread economic impact.
The president's chief science adviser, Allen Bromley, last week
criticized those who advocate ''slam-dunk solutions'' to global
warming.
''We cannot sail blindly into the future,'' said Bromley, another
conference co-chairman.
Some computer models have suggested that manmade pollutants will
cause a 4-degree to 9-degree Fahrenheit increase in global
temperatures in 60 years as the increasing pollution traps heat close
to the Earth.
However, some scientists said those projections are uncertain and
may not adequately take into account clouds or other factors that
might have a counteracting effect.
AP-NY-04-16-90 1610EDT
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a014 2312 16 Apr 90
PM-Greenhouse Conference, Bjt,0680
Bush Urges More Research on Greenhouse Effect; Others Want Action
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is telling an international
conference on global warming that more research into the greenhouse
problem is needed, but some European participants want less talk and
more action.
The president opens the two-day White House conference today with an
address that was expected to avoid making a specific commitment on
how to deal with the warming of the Earth's atmosphere by man-made
pollutants.
Some of the European delegates have called for industrial nations to
make specific commitments on controlling so-called greenhouse
pollutants, such as carbon dioxide, but the administration has
refused to go that far.
The president's science adviser, Allen Bromley, a co-chairman of the
conference, recently criticized those who advocate ''slam-dunk
solutions'' to global warming when uncertainties remain.
The cautious approach taken by the White House has prompted some of
the delegates to the 17-nation conference to complain that the
gathering is being used solely to promote the U.S. position on global
warming.
Conference sources said Monday that both the Dutch and West German
governments have complained about the conference agenda because it
focuses exclusively on research efforts and does not provide an open
give-and-take among delegates on possible response strategies.
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl made his displeasure known in a
letter to Bush, according to the sources, who asked not to be
identified. The Dutch complained in letters to senior White House
officials that the participants aren't even given time in open
sessions to address policy options other than additional research.
''We want to discuss (a response) policy,'' said Pier Vellinga, a
senior member of the Dutch delegation. The Netherlands and several
other European countries have favored an immediate commitment by
industrial nations to stabilize carbon dioxide emissions by the year
2000.
Vellinga said the Europeans have waited eagerly for Bush to convene
the conference, which he promised during his 1988 election campaign,
but they had expected it to focus on responses as well as research.
Senior administration officials have emphasized in recent days that
they view the conference as primarily a way to focus on the need for
more research into global warming and to address the economic
questions posed by the issue.
Representatives to the meeting are senior cabinet-level advisers on
economics, science and the environment from nations that include the
European Community, Japan and Brazil.
Bromley said the U.S. aim for the conference is to get widespread
endorsement for a broader, international research effort to better
gauge the severity of global warming and attempt to quantify its
economic effects.
U.S. environmentalists also chastised Bush for not focusing on
pollution control efforts.
The Sierra Club called the conference an attempt by the
administration to shift the focus away from environmental questions
to economic ones.
''It's really a smoke screen for the administration's inaction on
global warming,'' said Daniel Becker of the Sierra Club.
Environmentalists have argued that a wide range of energy
conservation efforts could be taken - including development of more
fuel-efficient cars - to reduce the global warming threat. Carbon
dioxide, which comes from burning fossil fuels, accounts for about
half of the greenhouse gases.
The Sierra Club, which has more than 500,000 members, said Monday it
plans to take that message to the public with a series of television
advertisements featuring actors such as William Shatner, John Ritter
and Jane Alexander.
The administration has maintained that while there is widespread
agreement that man-made pollutants are causing the Earth to warm, it
is not clear how severe the problem must be to warrant pollution
controls that could have widespread economic impact.
Some computer models have suggested the Earth could warm by 4 to 9
degrees Fahrenheit over the next 60 years because heat is being
trapped by pollution. Other studies, however, questioned whether the
warming would be that severe because of uncertainties about the
effect of clouds, oceans and other factors.
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Bush Says More Study Needed into Causes of Cloimate Changes
Tops with Bush remarks
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush today told an international
conference on global warming today that more study is needed into the
causes of climate changes, saying ''what we need are facts.''
Critics criticized the president's go-slow approach.
The president, receiving only polite applause at the beginning and
end of his address, told delegates to the conference: ''Environmental
policies that ignore the economic factor, the human factor, are
destined to failure.''
Bush repeatedly emphasized the link between environmental
consequences and economic costs. ''All of us must be certain we
preserve our environmental well-being and our economic welfare,''
Bush said. He called these ''two sides of the same coin.''
However, some delegates to the conference criticized the
administration's cautious approach to dealing with the so-called
greenhouse effect, where pollutants released in the Earth's
atmosphere are believed to trap sunlight and lead to warming of the
planet.
''Gaps in knowledge must not be used as an excuse for worldwide
inaction,'' said West Germany's environmental minister, Klaus Topfer
in a statement.
He said the White House conference should include debate over what
measures might be taken to curb global-warming pollution.
AP-NY-04-17-90 1103EDT
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WASHN: global-warming pollution.
Bush told his audience that prominent scientists come down on both
sides of the issue - some claiming that failure to control airborne
pollutants can lead to series global warming and others disputing
such contentions.
''Where does that leave us?'' Bush asked. ''What we need are facts,
the stuff that science is made of.''
The president's remarks opened a two-day White House conference. As
expected, Bush avoided making a specific commitment in his remarks.
Attending the conference were government environmental, economic and
science officials from 18 nations and representatives from several
international organizations.
''I know there's a debate raging out there. But I'm confident that
this approach that brings all of you together is the way to go,''
Bush said.
AP-NY-04-17-90 1107EDT
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a088 0813 17 Apr 90
PM-Greenhouse Conference, 1st Ld, 2nd Add, a087,0132
WASHN: Bush said.
Bush cited congressional and White House cooperation on compromise
clean-air legislation as a sign of a U.S. commitment on cleaning up
the environment.
He said that the debate over global warming ''often generates more
heat than light.''
Bush, carefully using the phrase ''climate change'' instead of
''global warming,'' told his audience that recognizing the economic
realities of the cost of environmental cleanup ''is in the interest
of every nation here today.''
Bush said that in developing nations, in particular, curbing
pollution is especially difficult.
''In a climate of poverty or persistent economic struggle,
protecting the environment becomes a far more difficult challenge.''
He added: ''There is no better ally in service of our environment
than strong economies.''
Some of: 3rd graf
AP-NY-04-17-90 1110EDT
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a014 2312 16 Apr 90
PM-Greenhouse Conference, Bjt,0680
Bush Urges More Research on Greenhouse Effect; Others Want Action
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is telling an international
conference on global warming that more research into the greenhouse
problem is needed, but some European participants want less talk and
more action.
The president opens the two-day White House conference today with an
address that was expected to avoid making a specific commitment on
how to deal with the warming of the Earth's atmosphere by man-made
pollutants.
Some of the European delegates have called for industrial nations to
make specific commitments on controlling so-called greenhouse
pollutants, such as carbon dioxide, but the administration has
refused to go that far.
The president's science adviser, Allen Bromley, a co-chairman of the
conference, recently criticized those who advocate ''slam-dunk
solutions'' to global warming when uncertainties remain.
The cautious approach taken by the White House has prompted some of
the delegates to the 17-nation conference to complain that the
gathering is being used solely to promote the U.S. position on global
warming.
Conference sources said Monday that both the Dutch and West German
governments have complained about the conference agenda because it
focuses exclusively on research efforts and does not provide an open
give-and-take among delegates on possible response strategies.
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl made his displeasure known in a
letter to Bush, according to the sources, who asked not to be
identified. The Dutch complained in letters to senior White House
officials that the participants aren't even given time in open
sessions to address policy options other than additional research.
''We want to discuss (a response) policy,'' said Pier Vellinga, a
senior member of the Dutch delegation. The Netherlands and several
other European countries have favored an immediate commitment by
industrial nations to stabilize carbon dioxide emissions by the year
2000.
Vellinga said the Europeans have waited eagerly for Bush to convene
the conference, which he promised during his 1988 election campaign,
but they had expected it to focus on responses as well as research.
Senior administration officials have emphasized in recent days that
they view the conference as primarily a way to focus on the need for
more research into global warming and to address the economic
questions posed by the issue.
Representatives to the meeting are senior cabinet-level advisers on
economics, science and the environment from nations that include the
European Community, Japan and Brazil.
Bromley said the U.S. aim for the conference is to get widespread
endorsement for a broader, international research effort to better
gauge the severity of global warming and attempt to quantify its
economic effects.
U.S. environmentalists also chastised Bush for not focusing on
pollution control efforts.
The Sierra Club called the conference an attempt by the
administration to shift the focus away from environmental questions
to economic ones.
''It's really a smoke screen for the administration's inaction on
global warming,'' said Daniel Becker of the Sierra Club.
Environmentalists have argued that a wide range of energy
conservation efforts could be taken - including development of more
fuel-efficient cars - to reduce the global warming threat. Carbon
dioxide, which comes from burning fossil fuels, accounts for about
half of the greenhouse gases.
The Sierra Club, which has more than 500,000 members, said Monday it
plans to take that message to the public with a series of television
advertisements featuring actors such as William Shatner, John Ritter
and Jane Alexander.
The administration has maintained that while there is widespread
agreement that man-made pollutants are causing the Earth to warm, it
is not clear how severe the problem must be to warrant pollution
controls that could have widespread economic impact.
Some computer models have suggested the Earth could warm by 4 to 9
degrees Fahrenheit over the next 60 years because heat is being
trapped by pollution. Other studies, however, questioned whether the
warming would be that severe because of uncertainties about the
effect of clouds, oceans and other factors.
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PM-Greenhouse Conference, 1st Ld, a014,0216
Bush Says More Study Needed into Causes of Cloimate Changes
Tops with Bush remarks
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush today told an international
conference on global warming today that more study is needed into the
causes of climate changes, saying ''what we need are facts.''
Critics criticized the president's go-slow approach.
The president, receiving only polite applause at the beginning and
end of his address, told delegates to the conference: ''Environmental
policies that ignore the economic factor, the human factor, are
destined to failure.''
Bush repeatedly emphasized the link between environmental
consequences and economic costs. ''All of us must be certain we
preserve our environmental well-being and our economic welfare,''
Bush said. He called these ''two sides of the same coin.''
However, some delegates to the conference criticized the
administration's cautious approach to dealing with the so-called
greenhouse effect, where pollutants released in the Earth's
atmosphere are believed to trap sunlight and lead to warming of the
planet.
''Gaps in knowledge must not be used as an excuse for worldwide
inaction,'' said West Germany's environmental minister, Klaus Topfer
in a statement.
He said the White House conference should include debate over what
measures might be taken to curb global-warming pollution.
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WASHN: global-warming pollution.
Bush told his audience that prominent scientists come down on both
sides of the issue - some claiming that failure to control airborne
pollutants can lead to series global warming and others disputing
such contentions.
''Where does that leave us?'' Bush asked. ''What we need are facts,
the stuff that science is made of.''
The president's remarks opened a two-day White House conference. As
expected, Bush avoided making a specific commitment in his remarks.
Attending the conference were government environmental, economic and
science officials from 18 nations and representatives from several
international organizations.
''I know there's a debate raging out there. But I'm confident that
this approach that brings all of you together is the way to go,''
Bush said.
AP-NY-04-17-90 1107EDT
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PM-Greenhouse Conference, 1st Ld, 2nd Add, a087,0132
WASHN: Bush said.
Bush cited congressional and White House cooperation on compromise
clean-air legislation as a sign of a U.S. commitment on cleaning up
the environment.
He said that the debate over global warming ''often generates more
heat than light.''
Bush, carefully using the phrase ''climate change'' instead of
''global warming,'' told his audience that recognizing the economic
realities of the cost of environmental cleanup ''is in the interest
of every nation here today.''
Bush said that in developing nations, in particular, curbing
pollution is especially difficult.
''In a climate of poverty or persistent economic struggle,
protecting the environment becomes a far more difficult challenge.''
He added: ''There is no better ally in service of our environment
than strong economies.''
Some of: 3rd graf
AP-NY-04-17-90 1110EDT
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a014 2312 16 Apr 90
PM-Greenhouse Conference, Bjt,0680
Bush Urges More Research on Greenhouse Effect; Others Want Action
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is telling an international
conference on global warming that more research into the greenhouse
problem is needed, but some European participants want less talk and
more action.
The president opens the two-day White House conference today with an
address that was expected to avoid making a specific commitment on
how to deal with the warming of the Earth's atmosphere by man-made
pollutants.
Some of the European delegates have called for industrial nations to
make specific commitments on controlling so-called greenhouse
pollutants, such as carbon dioxide, but the administration has
refused to go that far.
The president's science adviser, Allen Bromley, a co-chairman of the
conference, recently criticized those who advocate ''slam-dunk
solutions'' to global warming when uncertainties remain.
The cautious approach taken by the White House has prompted some of
the delegates to the 17-nation conference to complain that the
gathering is being used solely to promote the U.S. position on global
warming.
Conference sources said Monday that both the Dutch and West German
governments have complained about the conference agenda because it
focuses exclusively on research efforts and does not provide an open
give-and-take among delegates on possible response strategies.
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl made his displeasure known in a
letter to Bush, according to the sources, who asked not to be
identified. The Dutch complained in letters to senior White House
officials that the participants aren't even given time in open
sessions to address policy options other than additional research.
''We want to discuss (a response) policy,'' said Pier Vellinga, a
senior member of the Dutch delegation. The Netherlands and several
other European countries have favored an immediate commitment by
industrial nations to stabilize carbon dioxide emissions by the year
2000.
Vellinga said the Europeans have waited eagerly for Bush to convene
the conference, which he promised during his 1988 election campaign,
but they had expected it to focus on responses as well as research.
Senior administration officials have emphasized in recent days that
they view the conference as primarily a way to focus on the need for
more research into global warming and to address the economic
questions posed by the issue.
Representatives to the meeting are senior cabinet-level advisers on
economics, science and the environment from nations that include the
European Community, Japan and Brazil.
Bromley said the U.S. aim for the conference is to get widespread
endorsement for a broader, international research effort to better
gauge the severity of global warming and attempt to quantify its
economic effects.
U.S. environmentalists also chastised Bush for not focusing on
pollution control efforts.
The Sierra Club called the conference an attempt by the
administration to shift the focus away from environmental questions
to economic ones.
''It's really a smoke screen for the administration's inaction on
global warming,'' said Daniel Becker of the Sierra Club.
Environmentalists have argued that a wide range of energy
conservation efforts could be taken - including development of more
fuel-efficient cars - to reduce the global warming threat. Carbon
dioxide, which comes from burning fossil fuels, accounts for about
half of the greenhouse gases.
The Sierra Club, which has more than 500,000 members, said Monday it
plans to take that message to the public with a series of television
advertisements featuring actors such as William Shatner, John Ritter
and Jane Alexander.
The administration has maintained that while there is widespread
agreement that man-made pollutants are causing the Earth to warm, it
is not clear how severe the problem must be to warrant pollution
controls that could have widespread economic impact.
Some computer models have suggested the Earth could warm by 4 to 9
degrees Fahrenheit over the next 60 years because heat is being
trapped by pollution. Other studies, however, questioned whether the
warming would be that severe because of uncertainties about the
effect of clouds, oceans and other factors.
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PM-Greenhouse Conference, 1st Ld, a014,0216
Bush Says More Study Needed into Causes of Cloimate Changes
Tops with Bush remarks
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush today told an international
conference on global warming today that more study is needed into the
causes of climate changes, saying ''what we need are facts.''
Critics criticized the president's go-slow approach.
The president, receiving only polite applause at the beginning and
end of his address, told delegates to the conference: ''Environmental
policies that ignore the economic factor, the human factor, are
destined to failure.''
Bush repeatedly emphasized the link between environmental
consequences and economic costs. ''All of us must be certain we
preserve our environmental well-being and our economic welfare,''
Bush said. He called these ''two sides of the same coin.''
However, some delegates to the conference criticized the
administration's cautious approach to dealing with the so-called
greenhouse effect, where pollutants released in the Earth's
atmosphere are believed to trap sunlight and lead to warming of the
planet.
''Gaps in knowledge must not be used as an excuse for worldwide
inaction,'' said West Germany's environmental minister, Klaus Topfer
in a statement.
He said the White House conference should include debate over what
measures might be taken to curb global-warming pollution.
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Bush told his audience that prominent scientists come down on both
sides of the issue - some claiming that failure to control airborne
pollutants can lead to series global warming and others disputing
such contentions.
''Where does that leave us?'' Bush asked. ''What we need are facts,
the stuff that science is made of.''
The president's remarks opened a two-day White House conference. As
expected, Bush avoided making a specific commitment in his remarks.
Attending the conference were government environmental, economic and
science officials from 18 nations and representatives from several
international organizations.
''I know there's a debate raging out there. But I'm confident that
this approach that brings all of you together is the way to go,''
Bush said.
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WASHN: Bush said.
Bush cited congressional and White House cooperation on compromise
clean-air legislation as a sign of a U.S. commitment on cleaning up
the environment.
He said that the debate over global warming ''often generates more
heat than light.''
Bush, carefully using the phrase ''climate change'' instead of
''global warming,'' told his audience that recognizing the economic
realities of the cost of environmental cleanup ''is in the interest
of every nation here today.''
Bush said that in developing nations, in particular, curbing
pollution is especially difficult.
''In a climate of poverty or persistent economic struggle,
protecting the environment becomes a far more difficult challenge.''
He added: ''There is no better ally in service of our environment
than strong economies.''
Some of: 3rd graf
AP-NY-04-17-90 1110EDT
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a014 2312 16 Apr 90
PM-Greenhouse Conference, Bjt,0680
Bush Urges More Research on Greenhouse Effect; Others Want Action
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is telling an international
conference on global warming that more research into the greenhouse
problem is needed, but some European participants want less talk and
more action.
The president opens the two-day White House conference today with an
address that was expected to avoid making a specific commitment on
how to deal with the warming of the Earth's atmosphere by man-made
pollutants.
Some of the European delegates have called for industrial nations to
make specific commitments on controlling so-called greenhouse
pollutants, such as carbon dioxide, but the administration has
refused to go that far.
The president's science adviser, Allen Bromley, a co-chairman of the
conference, recently criticized those who advocate ''slam-dunk
solutions'' to global warming when uncertainties remain.
The cautious approach taken by the White House has prompted some of
the delegates to the 17-nation conference to complain that the
gathering is being used solely to promote the U.S. position on global
warming.
Conference sources said Monday that both the Dutch and West German
governments have complained about the conference agenda because it
focuses exclusively on research efforts and does not provide an open
give-and-take among delegates on possible response strategies.
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl made his displeasure known in a
letter to Bush, according to the sources, who asked not to be
identified. The Dutch complained in letters to senior White House
officials that the participants aren't even given time in open
sessions to address policy options other than additional research.
''We want to discuss (a response) policy,'' said Pier Vellinga, a
senior member of the Dutch delegation. The Netherlands and several
other European countries have favored an immediate commitment by
industrial nations to stabilize carbon dioxide emissions by the year
2000.
Vellinga said the Europeans have waited eagerly for Bush to convene
the conference, which he promised during his 1988 election campaign,
but they had expected it to focus on responses as well as research.
Senior administration officials have emphasized in recent days that
they view the conference as primarily a way to focus on the need for
more research into global warming and to address the economic
questions posed by the issue.
Representatives to the meeting are senior cabinet-level advisers on
economics, science and the environment from nations that include the
European Community, Japan and Brazil.
Bromley said the U.S. aim for the conference is to get widespread
endorsement for a broader, international research effort to better
gauge the severity of global warming and attempt to quantify its
economic effects.
U.S. environmentalists also chastised Bush for not focusing on
pollution control efforts.
The Sierra Club called the conference an attempt by the
administration to shift the focus away from environmental questions
to economic ones.
''It's really a smoke screen for the administration's inaction on
global warming,'' said Daniel Becker of the Sierra Club.
Environmentalists have argued that a wide range of energy
conservation efforts could be taken - including development of more
fuel-efficient cars - to reduce the global warming threat. Carbon
dioxide, which comes from burning fossil fuels, accounts for about
half of the greenhouse gases.
The Sierra Club, which has more than 500,000 members, said Monday it
plans to take that message to the public with a series of television
advertisements featuring actors such as William Shatner, John Ritter
and Jane Alexander.
The administration has maintained that while there is widespread
agreement that man-made pollutants are causing the Earth to warm, it
is not clear how severe the problem must be to warrant pollution
controls that could have widespread economic impact.
Some computer models have suggested the Earth could warm by 4 to 9
degrees Fahrenheit over the next 60 years because heat is being
trapped by pollution. Other studies, however, questioned whether the
warming would be that severe because of uncertainties about the
effect of clouds, oceans and other factors.
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PM-Greenhouse Conference, 1st Ld, a014,0216
Bush Says More Study Needed into Causes of Cloimate Changes
Tops with Bush remarks
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush today told an international
conference on global warming today that more study is needed into the
causes of climate changes, saying ''what we need are facts.''
Critics criticized the president's go-slow approach.
The president, receiving only polite applause at the beginning and
end of his address, told delegates to the conference: ''Environmental
policies that ignore the economic factor, the human factor, are
destined to failure.''
Bush repeatedly emphasized the link between environmental
consequences and economic costs. ''All of us must be certain we
preserve our environmental well-being and our economic welfare,''
Bush said. He called these ''two sides of the same coin.''
However, some delegates to the conference criticized the
administration's cautious approach to dealing with the so-called
greenhouse effect, where pollutants released in the Earth's
atmosphere are believed to trap sunlight and lead to warming of the
planet.
''Gaps in knowledge must not be used as an excuse for worldwide
inaction,'' said West Germany's environmental minister, Klaus Topfer
in a statement.
He said the White House conference should include debate over what
measures might be taken to curb global-warming pollution.
AP-NY-04-17-90 1103EDT
- - - - - -
a087 0810 17 Apr 90
PM-Greenhouse Conference, 1st Ld, 1st Add, a086,0129
WASHN: global-warming pollution.
Bush told his audience that prominent scientists come down on both
sides of the issue - some claiming that failure to control airborne
pollutants can lead to series global warming and others disputing
such contentions.
''Where does that leave us?'' Bush asked. ''What we need are facts,
the stuff that science is made of.''
The president's remarks opened a two-day White House conference. As
expected, Bush avoided making a specific commitment in his remarks.
Attending the conference were government environmental, economic and
science officials from 18 nations and representatives from several
international organizations.
''I know there's a debate raging out there. But I'm confident that
this approach that brings all of you together is the way to go,''
Bush said.
AP-NY-04-17-90 1107EDT
- - - - - -
a088 0813 17 Apr 90
PM-Greenhouse Conference, 1st Ld, 2nd Add, a087,0132
WASHN: Bush said.
Bush cited congressional and White House cooperation on compromise
clean-air legislation as a sign of a U.S. commitment on cleaning up
the environment.
He said that the debate over global warming ''often generates more
heat than light.''
Bush, carefully using the phrase ''climate change'' instead of
''global warming,'' told his audience that recognizing the economic
realities of the cost of environmental cleanup ''is in the interest
of every nation here today.''
Bush said that in developing nations, in particular, curbing
pollution is especially difficult.
''In a climate of poverty or persistent economic struggle,
protecting the environment becomes a far more difficult challenge.''
He added: ''There is no better ally in service of our environment
than strong economies.''
Some of: 3rd graf
AP-NY-04-17-90 1110EDT
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PM-Greenhouse Conference, Bjt,0699
Bush Seeks More Research on Global Warming; Europeans Want Action
LaserPhoto WX7
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration wants delegates to an
international conference to embrace its call for more research on
global warming, despite their grumbling that the United States is
moving too slowly on the problem.
The two-day White House conference, attended by senior government
officials from 19 countries, has been marked by discord over whether
specific commitments should be made to reduce so-called greenhouse
pollutants, especially carbon dioxide.
Despite the disagreements, senior administration officials and many
of the delegates suggested the conference likely would go along with
a U.S. call for broader research into global warming and its economic
impact.
The conference concludes today.
President Bush told the conference Tuesday that more research is
needed ''to sort out the science'' of the greenhouse effect. He
rejected suggestions that specific response strategies be developed
immediately.
That brought prompt criticism from some of the European delegations.
''Gaps in knowledge must not be used as an excuse for worldwide
inaction,'' declared Klaus Topfer, the West German environmental
minister. Later he tempered his criticism of the U.S. position,
saying the call for additional research is not altogether bad.
The West Germans today were to outline details of their proposed 25
percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.
The United States has argued it is too early to make a commitment on
specific pollution reductions. Instead, it has sought to focus the
conference on gaining international support for more research on the
scientific questions on global warming and the economic costs.
Attending the conference were senior environmental ministers from
the 19 countries as well as Cabinet-level officials on economics,
scientific and energy issues.
Allan Bromley, Bush's science adviser and a conference co-chairman,
told reporters he hoped the delegates would commit to a broadened
international research effort and begin to routinely consider
economic issues in the global warming debate.
''President Bush does not feel in any sense the research should be a
substitute for action,'' Bromley said.
Some European countries have advocated for months that industrial
nations commit themselves to stabilizing carbon dioxide emissions by
the year 2000. Many environmentalists say emissions should be cut by
20 percent.
Such pollution cuts would require increased energy conservation,
development of more fuel-efficient automobiles and more energy
efficiency in homes and businesses.
Talk about further research and economic considerations should ''not
distract us from taking action on carbon dioxide stabilization now,''
Hans Alders, the Dutch environmental minister, told the conference
during a closed working session Tuesday.
''We needed Love Canal before hazardous waste was tackled. We needed
a dying River Rhine before waste water was treated. ... My country
has decided to learn the lessons from the past and act on global
warming now,'' Alders told the delegates, according to a transcript
provided by the Dutch delegation.
Delegates from France, Italy and environmental officials from the
European Community also warned against substituting research for
action.
''We didn't come here to argue with the United States or anybody
else,'' said Padraig Flynn, the Irish environmental minister and a
member of the delegation from the European Community.
But while supporting the call for more research, Flynn added,
''Research must not be used to put off the problems that must be
addressed today.''
In welcoming the delegates Tuesday, Bush acknowledged the
disagreements, saying, ''I know there's a debate raging out there.''
Scientists agree that man-made pollution, especially the release of
carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, is causing heat to be
trapped and will result in a warming of the globe. But the severity
of the warming and how specific regions of the Earth will be affected
is not as clear.
Some computer models have suggested the global temperatures could
increase by as much as four to nine degrees Fahrenheit by the middle
of the next century, causing coastal flooding and a shift of weather
and agriculture patterns. Other scientists say the impact is
uncertain because of a variety of factors, such as the uncertain
effect of clouds.
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PM-Bush-Environment,0766
WASHINGTON TODAY: Bush Salutes the Environment His Way
By TOM RAUM
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says the environment is the theme
of the week. For President Bush, that means mostly golfing, fishing
and boating.
Brushing aside fresh assaults on his environmental scorecard, Bush's
top advisers in recent days have bent over backward to trumpet the
president's keen interest in outdoor sports as a manifestation of his
concern for the environment.
Thus, Bush will honor Earth Day on Sunday by fishing in Florida for
tarpon and bonefish.
Bush needs no prompting to get in touch with the elements. But the
elements he's been getting in touch with - the well-manicured greens
of country clubs, the azure waters off the Florida keys - may not
exactly match environmentalists' notions of the endangered biosphere.
''I don't think what he's done qualifies him to proclaim himself the
environmental president,'' said Senate Majority Leader George
Mitchell, D-Maine. ''He's got a long way to go.''
And, while praising Bush for helping forge a compromise on clean air
legislation, Mitchell said the president ''missed a golden
opportunity'' in not taking a more assertive role on global warming.
In fact, Bush received sharp criticism from environmentalists from
around the world this week for the go-slow approach he advocated at a
conference in Washington on global warming - a conference he
convened.
Bush often boasts about his environmental record. But he has been
criticized by many for moving too slowly and too timidly on a range
of issues - from global warming to wetlands policy to offshore oil
production.
''The fishing is pretty darn good near these drilling rigs,'' Bush
said in a relaxed interview with a group of outdoors writers.
The interview was one of a series of events organized for the
president over the past few days to stress conservation and
environmental themes leading up to Earth Day.
''I'm not suggesting that's the reason to have drilling,'' Bush
continued on the subject of oil rigs as fishing grounds. ''But I am
saying that ... we cannot become totally dependent on foreign oil and
offshore (drilling) offers some potential.''
Bush's drilling comment did not seem designed to win him points with
Florida environmentalists. Offshore platforms are a touchy subject
there.
Shortly after taking office, Bush imposed a temporary moratorium on
drilling in environmentally sensitive areas off the Florida and
California coasts. But his administration has done little since,
short of a proposal to move shipping lanes used by oil tankers
further offshore.
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater called Bush's visit to the
Florida Keys this weekend a final installment in a week-long effort
to showcase the environment.
''On Sunday, Earth Day, he will fish with Curt Gowdy for an
'American Outdoorsman' special that will air later this spring,''
Fitzwater said at a news briefing.
Other environmental week events included distribution of tree
saplings at the annual Easter Egg Roll and daily ''point of light''
awards for environmental volunteerism.
''You've got to have a mix of work and recreation,'' Bush told
reporters as he played 18 holes of golf in the rain at a Bermuda
country club last Saturday after meeting with British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher.
The environment, in fact, remains one of the most divisive issues
within the administration - with White House chief of staff John
Sununu and budget director Richard Darman in a continual tug-of-war
with William K. Reilly, chief of the Environmental Protection Agency.
So far, Sununu and Darman appear to be winning as Reilly, a
conservation activist before Bush tapped him for the EPA post, has
found many of his environmental proposals watered down, including a
stronger policy for global warming.
In fact, on negotiations with Capitol Hill on Clean Air Act
amendments, Reilly is likely to be sidelined completely, with White
House and budget office aides doing the prime bargaining, White House
sources said.
Meanwhile, Bush sees a clear link between the environment and
outdoor athletics.
''I'm trying to do my part to get outdoors and show the flag for
sports, fitness and recreation - taking a few shots in the process
but nothing I can't handle so far,'' he said.
''By that, I mean I am determined to go fishing and I think people
understand,'' he told the outdoors writers.
''I'm down there (in Florida) to have fun,'' Bush added, previewing
this weekend's trip. ''And if we can help by pointing out the
sensitivity of the environment there, the ecological balance in the
Everglades, I want to do that.''
---
EDITOR'S NOTE: Tom Raum covers the White House for The Associated
Press.
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a044 0320 18 Apr 90
PM-Business-Environment,0483
Business Leader Says Corporate Fears Were Exaggerated
With PM-Greenhouse Conference Bjt
By MIKE FEINSILBER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Those fearful predictions of 20 years ago that
environmental demands would cause unemployment and economic
stagnation have turned out to be overstated, a business leader says.
Experience has shown that combating pollution is compatible with
economic growth, said Alexander Trowbridge, a former secretary of
commerce and chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers'
Industry Coalition for the Environment.
''Environmental improvement has been a corollary to economic growth
and has not come in spite of it,'' Trowbridge told a news conference
Tuesday.
He said the ''dire predictions about environmental improvement
coming at the cost of jobs and national economic strength and high
prices'' have proven to be exaggerated.
At the same time, he said, environmentalists' warnings ''that Lake
Erie would be dead, urban dwellers would be wearing gas masks, rivers
would be reaching a boiling point,'' also were overdrawn.
Trowbridge said he was not contending there will not be tradeoffs
between jobs and the environment.
But, he said, the record since Earth Day 1970 ''indicates that
economic growth, moderate but real, has taken place in these 20 years
and environmental improvement has also taken place.''
''My judgment is that we've made progress both in the economy and
the environment and I think we'll continue to do so,'' he said.
Trowbridge presented a report that said production of six major
pollutants has dropped sharply since 1970, while employment,
productivity, per capita income, industrial production and the
overall size of the economy have grown steadily.
Environmentalists said they suspected that Trowbridge had made an
Earth Day conversion. Earth Day is being commemorated on Sunday with
events scheduled nationwide.
''Talk is cheap and action is not cheap,'' said David Gardiner,
legislative director of the Sierra Club. ''It's the
don't-worry-be-happy message at the same time the NAM and their
members are spending millions of dollars lobbying against changes in
law which would do a better job in improving the environment. ...
What we're seeing from industry is Earth Day earth-hype.''
''It is an encouraging-sounding message, but just in the last month
and a half we've seen from the Business Roundtable and other industry
groups the most apocalyptical hype about how the Clear Air Act is
going to kill the economy,'' added David Doniger, senior attorney for
the Natural Resources Defense Council.
''It will be interesting to see if, next time there is a piece of
legislation to be acted upon, the NAM will take a more enlightened
line,'' he said.
But Trowbridge said a fundamental change has taken place in
corporate America. Environmental considerations are now being taken
into account in business decisions, he said.
''Environmental quality is a very key element of planning,
designing, building and producing,'' he said, ''and this has been
growing not only as a psychological factor but as a point of stated
policy.''
AP-NY-04-18-90 0610EDT
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a050 0401 18 Apr 90
PM-Earth-Democrats,0408
Democrats Using Earth Day Focus to Whack GOP on Environment
By JOHN KING
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Democratic Party's congressional campaign arm
is joining the Earth Day celebration in a partisan fashion, launching
a television ad campaign that takes a swipe at the GOP's
environmental record.
Two ads produced for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
are scheduled to be broadcast today, Thursday and Sunday in seven
congressional districts where the environment is expected to be a
major campaign issue.
Those districts are in New Jersey, Rhode Island, two in California,
New York, Colorado and Alaska. Four currently are represented by
Democrats and three by Republicans, but two of the GOP lawmakers -
Claudine Schneider in Rhode Island and Hank Brown in Colorado - are
giving up their House seats to run for the Senate.
The ads also are to be aired nationally Thursday night on the Cable
News Network.
DCCC spokesman Howard Schloss would not disclose the budget for the
campaign but said the ads would air from five to 10 times a day in
the targeted districts.
''I would simply say that with these spots the DCCC is polluting the
nation's airwaves with misinformation,'' said John Roberts,
communications director for the National Republican Congressional
Committee. ''If the Democratic Party has such an edge on the
environment, why did it take a Republican president (George Bush) to
get the Clean Air Act moving through Congress?''
One of the ads doesn't mention the GOP but promotes the Democratic
Party as most committed to protecting and cleaning up the
environment.
''As we approach a new century, we must focus on the threat of
global warming, proper disposal of hazardous wastes and the
prevention of industrial disasters,'' the narrator says as
environmental images are shown. ''The Democrats will continue their
commitment to protecting our environment.''
The second ad goes after the Republican Party. It shows pictures of
workers cleaning up after the Exxon Valdez oil spill as the narrator
says:
''When the Valdez went on the rocks, Republicans took a wait-and-see
attitude. Like they did with the fires at Yellowstone. Like they're
doing with nuclear waste at Rocky Flats. But while the Republicans
waited, the Democrats went to work, demanding the federal government
take over the cleanup. The Democrats have been coming to the rescue
of our environment for years. Because we can't afford to wait.''
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Bush Foresees Action on Global Warming; Critics Hail ''Common
Ground''
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush, responding to criticism of his
global warming policy, told an international conference Wednesday he
has ''never considered research a substitute for action.''
The president's remarks at the close of the 18-nation White House
conference were warmly received by many of the same delegates who a
day earlier criticized the administration for failing to deal
directly with global warming.
''We came here to find common ground and we've found common ground -
that research and action are inseparable,'' Padraig Flynn,
environnment minister from Ireland and an official of the European
Community, told reporters.
Bush opened the conference Tuesday saying more research is needed
before costly programs are set up to fight global warming. But he
closed the conference by challenging his critics - many of them
European delegates and environmentalists observing the conference -
over global warming.
He said the United States is ''leading the search for response
strategies and working through the uncertainty of both the science
and the economics of climate change.''
''But there is one area where we will allow for no uncertainty, and
that is our commitment to action, to sound analysis and sound
policies,'' he said.
''Above all the climate change debate is not about 'research versus
action' for we have never considered research a substitute for
action,'' Bush told the senior government officials from around the
world.
''To those who suggest we're only trying to balance economic growth
and environmental protection, I say they miss the point,'' Bush said.
''We are calling for an entirely new way of thinking, to achieve both
while compromising neither.'
The two-day conference was marked by discord over whether there
should be specific commitments to reduce so-called greenhouse
pollutants, especially carbon dioxide. The United States maintained
the conference was aimed at focusing on the need for additional
research into global warming and its economic impact, not on
developing action plans.
But after Bush's remarks, many of the European delegates expressed
hope that the U.S. position emphasizing research had shifted closer
to their own views: that industrial nations along must reduce the
manmade pollutants, such as carbon dioxide, which scientists fear are
causing a warming of the Earth.
Hans Alders, the Dutch environment minister and one of the strongest
critics of the U.S. policy, said he was heartened by Bush's closing
remarks.
''At the beginning, there were remarks only about the need for more
scientific research and economic knowledge,'' said Alders. ''Now you
get the impression he is saying we need action now and we need more
information. And I agree with that.''
Rafe Pomerance, an environmentalist observing the conference for the
World Resources Institute, said the administration ''got a very
strong message from the European governments.''
Senior administration officials called the two-day conference a
success because it allowed a frank exchange of ideas on the
scientific uncertainties about global warming and the question of
economic cost of both action and inaction was discussed.
But disputes over the narrow focus of the conference agenda and
other matters prevented agreement on a conference summary report and
left a U.S. proposal for an ambitious international research effort,
including creation of a special institute for global warming, not
even considered.
A draft of the U.S. proposal was briefly circulated Wednesday
morning, but then quickly withdrawn when it raised the ire of many of
the delegates. Michael Deland, chairman of the president's Council on
Environmental Quality and a conference co-chairman, said the document
was distributed by mistake.
''That was a complete misunderstanding,'' said Allan Bromley, the
president's science adviser and another conference co-chairman. But
Bromley prior to the conference had said the United States had hoped
such a proposal would win the endorsement of the conference.
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Greenhouse Conference Highlights US-European Differences
An AP News Analysis
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - A two-day conference on global warming brought to
the surface the polarization between much of Europe and the United
States over the question of global warming and the need for action.
The conference produced little to indicate the Bush administration
will abandon its go-slow, cautious policy and adopt the more
aggressive posture held by many of the European countries.
President Bush, in closing the international conference Wednesday,
declared his ''commitment to action, to sound analysis and sound
policies'' in tackling the problem of manmade pollution that
scientists say is causing a warming of the earth.
''The climate change debate is not about 'research versus action,'
for we have never considered research a substitute for action,'' he
told the delegates from 18 nations.
But neither Bush nor other senior administration officials suggested
that the administration is prepared to embrace the aggressive
response strategies discussed by some European delegates.
No one at the White House discussed possible timetables for reducing
carbon dioxide emissions. Allan Bromley, the president's science
adviser and co-chairman of the conference, repeatedly emphasized the
session was aimed at dealing with unresolved scientific issues and
economics, not response or policy issues.
The president did not mention action plans when he welcomed the
delegates on Tuesday, prompting criticism from the European
delegations. Environmentalists contended Bush allowed the leadership
mantle to fall into European hands on the global warming issue.
''Worldwide action is urgently needed even if all the complex
scientific causal relationships of climate changes have not been
firmly established,'' Klaus Topfer, the West German environment
minister, told the delegates.
The Europeans argue enough already is known to launch prudent plans
for cutting carbon dioxide, which comes largely from the burning of
fossil fuels and accounts for half of the global warming problem.
The Dutch favor a commitment as soon as possible by the industrial
countries to stabilize carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2000. The
European Community may well make such a commitment without U.S.
participation this summer.
West Germany informed the delegates it plans to draft a proposal for
a 25 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions in Germany by the year
2005. The Canadians also said they plan to develop carbon dioxide
reduction goals.
The Bush administration, however, has made no indication it will
join soon in taking similar actions, suggesting instead that the
global warming threat and the economic impact must still be better
understood.
European delegates scoffed at those statements.
''A stabilization of carbon dioxide emissions is not a matter of
economic constraints, but it is a matter of political will,'' Hans
Alders, the Dutch environmental minister, told the delegates.
Within the Bush administration there appears to be no similar sense
of urgency. Asked about a timetable, Energy Secretary James Watkins
suggested in an interview that a plan for specific carbon dioxide
controls might not be prudent until the middle of the decade.
EPA Administrator William Reilly suggested it could be considerably
sooner. He said the United States still hopes to join negotiations
late this year or early in 1991 on developing a framework that would
eventually be the basis for an international treaty to cut global
warming pollutants.
Meanwhile, the White House tried to put its own ''spin'' on the
global warming issue during the conference, according to an internal
document that found its way to environmental activists, who provided
it to reporters.
The guidelines, presumably for administration officials attending
the conference, included a section on ''debates to avoid.'' It wasn't
clear who drew up the ''talking points,'' although administration
officials said they were authentic.
The document warned against discussions of whether there is too much
warming of the Earth because ''in the eyes of the public we will lose
this debate.''
Other things not to do, according to the White House guidelines:
-''Don't get into an advocacy position of the merits of the various
policy proposals.''
-''Don't use specific numbers (degrees, dollars, rates, etc.)'' when
discussing how the conference is ''accelerating the international
discussion and understanding of these issues.''
-Finally, ''don't let reporters position this conference as an
attempt to delay serious decisions on this issue.''
William Reilly, head of the Environmental Protection Agency and one
of the administration's leading spokesmen on global warming issues,
said he was aware of the document, but that he frequently talks about
many of the subjects outlined in the ''don't'' section.
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EDITOR'S NOTE - H. Josef Hebert covers environmental issues for The
Associated Press.
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Stars Go All-Out To Save the Earth
By JAY SHARBUTT
AP Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - It is a safe bet that on Sunday you're not going to
see a star-studded special called ''Just Say No to Rain Forests.''
This is because Sunday is Earth Day. An army of ecology-minded
celebrities will be on TV then, earnestly urging you to save the
planet and to fight pollution, global warming and maybe even bad
breath.
As you may have noticed, though, Earth Day warmups already are under
way. Today, for example, the scheduled guests on Geraldo Rivera's
syndicated talk show include noted eco-celebs Olivia Newton-John and
John Denver.
Denver, a spokesman says, will sing his new song, ''Raven's Child,''
described as ''dedicated to saving the Earth.''
Tonight at 11:30 p.m. EDT, CBS has ''Save the Planet: A CBS-Hard
Rock Cafe Special,'' in which Katey Sagal, Bobcat Goldthwait and
assorted rock stars gather to joke, sing and ponder the environment.
An advance tape of that show wasn't available for screening. Neither
was one for ABC's two-hour eco-extravaganza, ''The Earth Day
Special,'' which features more than 40 stars ranging from Jane Fonda
to the Toxic Rappers.
However, an ABC spokeswoman describes that show, airing Sunday at 9
p.m. EDT, as an ecological fable. In it, Bette Midler plays an abused
Mother Earth who collapses in a town square during an Earth Day
celebration.
Midler chastizes Robin Williams, cast as an Everyman, for not taking
better care of her. Then she's whisked to a hospital, where the staff
includes the compassionate Dana Delany of ''China Beach.''
And so it will go, with song, comedy and vignettes all aimed at
raising the viewers' consciousness about the environment and showing
possible solutions for that which threatens the Earth.
Cable TV also has a number of Earth Day-related shows afoot, among
them the Discovery Channel's ''Amazonia,'' about the Brazilian rain
forest. That airs tonight, when the baby boomer VH-1 channel also
starts a series of programs on environmental issues that will
continue through Sunday.
The Arts & Entertainment Cable Network will have a one-hour Sunday
special, ''Challenge of the Seas,'' with host-narrator Ted Danson.
The show starts a 26-part weekly documentary series about the ocean.
(Danson, of course, is a co-star of ''Cheers.'' It sure would be
nice if some day an oceanographer got to host and narrate that show.)
As you'd expect, Ted Turner's cable empire, perhaps the only TV
giant with a vice president for environmental policy, also is noting
Earth Day.
It has four environmental specials scheduled Sunday, two of them
reruns on his TNT network, and two new shows, a National Geographic
special and a Cousteau Society special, to be shown by his TBS
Superstation.
And his Cable News Network ''World Report'' on Sunday will feature
an ambitious two-hour collection of reports on environmental issues
in more than 40 countries.
The news divisions of ABC, NBC and CBS, which have given extensive
coverage to environmental issues this week, will again be rife with
Earth Day reports on Sunday, starting with their morning programs.
Local stations will be active, too, although not on as large a scale
as NBC affiliate KRON-TV in San Francisco. It has put together an
Earth Day weekend network of 120 stations to carry two specials.
The first is the taped one-hour ''Earth Day 1990: A User's Guide to
Saving the Environment,'' hosted by Dennis Weaver.
The second, fed live to participating East Coast stations at 11:30
p.m. EDT Sunday, is ''Earth Day Tonight,'' a half-hour wrapup of
Earth Day doings around the nation. That show will be anchored by
Linda Ellerbee.
Unlike some reporters who may be cynics, she takes a benign view
toward all those Hollywood ecological stars who'll be all over TV on
Sunday.
''I suppose it's easy to make fun of the whole notion of the
celebrities who are joining in,'' she says. ''But this is one of
those situations where, I guess, as loud a noise as can be made is
good. . . .
''The best thing that can be said for them is that by making such a
loud noise, they're helping create a climate where some things can be
done.''
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Elsewhere in television ...
TOONS FIGHT DRUGS: It'll be hard for kids to miss ''Cartoon
All-Stars To the Rescue'' on Saturday morning. The three networks,
Fox stations, about 200 independent stations and some cable channels
will show the don't-use-drugs show then. More than 20 cartoon
characters, from Bugs Bunny to Garfield, are featured. The half-hour
broadcast generally will start at 10:30 a.m. EDT.
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People in the News
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Actress-model Lauren Hutton, the gapped-tooth
star of such films as ''American Gigolo,'' filed suit against fellow
actress and friend Beverly D'Angelo for alleging breaking her leg in
a car accident.
''It's not like she ran over her on purpose. It was just an
accident, but we wanted to protect the statute (of limitations),''
Hutton attorney Richard Bisetti said Thursday. Such suits must be
filed within a year of an accident.
The Superior Court suit filed earlier this month against Miss
D'Angelo and Budget Rent A Car seeks an unspecified amount for
medical expenses, loss of earnings and pain and suffering.
On Aug. 20, Miss D'Angelo was behind the wheel of a rented car that
backed into Miss Hutton, 46, who was waiting to get inside, Bisetti
said.
''She was in a cast for almost eight months and they (doctors) are
still concerned about her leg,'' he said.
Bisetti said Miss D'Angelo and Budget Rent A Car were supposed to be
served with the suit by Friday. Budget owner Arnold Graham wasn't in
the office early Thursday, a receptionist said.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - A state agency has offered Bob Hope $20 million
for 5,700 acres of his mountain property to spare the rugged canyon
country from development, an official said.
Hope has not acted on the proposal by the Santa Monica Mountains
Conservancy, said Executive Director Joseph T. Edmiston.
''I am optimistic,'' he said Wednesday. ''I think it would be the
most important acquisition that has been made, certainly in the last
20 years or so, in the whole Santa Monica Mountains zone.''
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LOS ANGELES: Mountains zone.''
Hope has been criticized by environmentalists for moving to sell his
vast holdings in Los Angeles and Ventura counties to developers.
The proposed agreement would transfer most of Hope's mountain land
to the state and federal governments.
The area would serve as part of a migratory wildlife corridor for
animal populations in the Santa Monica and Santa Susana mountains.
The 86-year-old comedian has endured negative publicity in recent
months over his sale of mountain lands to prospective developers and
his refusal to consider giving or selling the land to park agencies.
Hope's publicist Frank Lieberman said the entertainer had no comment
regarding the proposed sale.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - 2 Live Crew members were as nasty as they
wanted to be early Thursday as they performed in a nightclub despite
threats of arrests on obscenity charges.
The nightclub Central City was packed to its 1,500-person capacity
when the group opened with a song called ''Martinez Rap,'' about
Republican Gov. Bob Martinez's campaign against the group's graphic
lyrics.
The band, whose album ''As Nasty As They Wanna Be'' has been banned
in several Florida counties, began its performance at midnight and
concluded about 1:30 a.m.
''Arrests? Not by this department,'' said a duty officer at
Gainesville police headquarters who spoke on condition of anonymity.
''This whole thing, we understand, was being publicized by the state
attorney's office.''
State attorney Len Register had called some of 2 Live Crew's
sexually explicit songs ''the most filthy thing I've ever
encountered.'' He threatened to have the band arrested if they played
uncensored versions of songs such as ''Me So Horny,'' and ''Move
Somethin,'' which has lyrics referring to sadomasochistic sex and
violence against women.
Register's office said Thursday he was in meetings and would not be
available for comment.
Debbie Bennett, spokeswoman for the group in Miami, said it played
its usual concert. The group had an attorney on hand and bail money
available if Register had followed up on his threat, she said.
The Miami-based group is led by Luther ''Luke Skyywalker'' Campbell.
Members are David ''Mr. Mixx'' Hobbs, Chris ''Fresh Ice Kid'' Won
Wong and Mark ''Brother Marquis'' Ross.
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ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) - A group purportedly acting in the name of
religion says it set fire to the office of gospel singer Sandi Patti
because she put herself ''on the pedestal of God.''
Police said they have never heard of the ''Equal Religious
Coalition'' but they're taking a claim of responsibility for the fire
seriously.
An unidentified woman professing to be part of the group said
Tuesday's fire was set in the singer's office ''in objection to Mrs.
Patti's blatancy to continue to put herself on the pedestal of God.''
The woman made the claim to the Anderson Herald Bulletin, the
newspaper reported Thursday. It said the woman phoned Wednesday and
read a statement.
''We are not taking any information too lightly or too seriously,''
Patti said. ''We are waiting to see how this fits into the whole
scheme of things.''
The newspaper notified police, and Chief Ron Rheam said he reviewed
the message and is considering it.
No one was injured when flames destroyed the Helvering Booking and
Management office, operated by Patti's husband, John Helvering. The
office handles mail distribution of Patti's records, tapes and
T-shirts.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Betsey Fowler, wife of Mutual of Omaha's Wild
Kingdom co-star Jim Fowler, has painted a series of works to help
fight the extinction of the African elephant.
Mrs. Fowler said she adopted the plight of the animals after living
among a herd with her family during her husband's research in Kenya.
Mutual of Omaha Fund Management, the investment affiliate of the
insurance company, sponsored Wednesday's reception for Mrs. Fowler
and her husband, a naturalist and conservationist, in honor of the
20th anniversary of Earth Day.
Mrs. Fowler formed the Fowler Wildlife Association in New York and
is selling prints of her work for up to $125 each, with part of the
proceeds going to fight the slaughter of elephants.
''For my children and my grandchildren, I am committed to doing all
that I can to save this most powerful species from man's destruction
and greed,'' she said.
The money will help Richard Leakey, director of Kenya's Department
of Wildlife, curb the poaching of elephants for their tusks, she
said. About 2,000 elephants are killed each week, and about 85
percent of Kenya's elephants have been killed since 1973, she said,
citing Leakey's statistics.
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Earth Day Celebrations, Protests Planned Sunday in 130 Countries
By VICTORIA GRAHAM
Associated Press Writer
Twenty years after the environmental movement was launched, 130
countries on Sunday will mark Earth Day with parades and protests
calling attention to garbage in Japan, rain forests in Brazil and
pollution everywhere.
At the United Nations in New York, 42 astronauts from l4 countries
will participate in celebrations to include displays of earth photos
taken from space 20 years ago and others taken recently. The effects
of pollution, oil drilling and tree felling are clear.
A transmission from the Soviet space station Mir will be projected
on a large screen.
At the Washington D.C. zoo, elephants will trample aluminum cans to
promote recycling. In Eger, Hungary, there will be a parade of people
dressed as trees and birds, and in Keszthely people will wear gas
masks to protest auto emissions.
British shoppers are being asked to return unnecessary and wasteful
packaging to grocery stores for recycling.
In the Himalayas, climbers from the United States, Soviet Union and
China have set Earth Day as their target for reaching the summit of
Mount Everest. They will collect garbage from past expeditions during
the climb.
Earth Day will last a week in the oil-rich Persian Gulf.
Exhibitions, lectures and other activities are aimed at heightening
awareness of the dangers of polluting the Gulf with offshore oil rigs
and coastal industries.
Gaylord Nelson, a former U.S. senator who founded the first Earth
Day in 1970, said this year's celebration is likely to be ''the
largest grassroots demonstration in history.''
Nelson, a counselor to the Wilderness Society, said it should create
public uproar that ''shakes the political leadership of the world out
of its lethargy and forces it to deal with global environmental
problems.''
Japan will celebrate Earth Day for the first time. Events will
include a festival on Yumenoshima, or ''dream island,'' in Tokyo Bay.
The island was built on landfill, mainly garbage from Tokyo.
Denis Hayes, international chairman of Earth Day, said on a recent
visit to Tokyo that Japan was ''in a league almost with the United
States in being viewed as an environmental outlaw, perhaps even more
so because of its dependence on resources from overseas.''
Saving the Brazilian rain forests from development will be a major
theme worldwide.
The Japan Tropical Forest Action Network plans a ''rock for the rain
forest'' concert to publicize Japan's position as the leading
importer of wood from tropical rain forests.
In Budapest, Hungary, ecologists will give the Brazilian Embassy a
coffin filled with sawdust to protest the ''killing'' of the Amazon
forests.
In Britain, Friends of the Earth will tell people that massive Third
World foreign debt contributes to destruction of rain forests. The
environmental group is pushing for debt relief.
Other activities worldwide will include:
- France: formation of a human chain of 500,000 people along the
Loire River that will stretch about 520 miles.
- Hungary: in Vac, a dirty 4-yard sphere symbolizing the earth will
be rolled into the main square and washed clean.
- The Netherlands: environmental groups will protest highways under
construction and proposed tunnels to bisect the Amsterdam-Rotterdam
corridor. - Ireland: parades in Dublin and 10 other cities are
planned.
- Britain: the Council For Posterity launches the Adopt-A-Planet
competition in primary and secondary schools. Students will adopt a
small piece of land, making improvements and taking ''before'' and
''after'' photographs. Cash prizes will be awarded in June 1991.
- Mexico: environmentalists will march four miles from Zocalo to
Chapultepec Park. The theme will be the four elements: earth, wind,
water and fire. A major issue is poaching and export of sea turtle
eggs and skins.
- United States: in Arizona, students will plant hundreds of trees.
Many communities will close streets to motorized traffic. Some
chemical plants will hold open houses.
But not everyone is enthusiastic: ''What Earth Day is going to be is
an anti-technology, anti-business, anti-Western civilization orgy by
people who have no serious concern about enviromental objectives,''
said Fred Smith, president of the U.S. Competitive Enterprise
Institute.
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Environmental Movement Turns Some Companies Green With Embarrassment
Eds: longer version moving on financial wires
By E. SCOTT RECKARD
and
JOHN HORN
Associated Press Writers
LOS ANGELES (AP) - For an image-obsessed outfit like the Walt Disney
Co., the soiled Mickey Mouse disposable diapers scattered throughout
garbage dumps don't exactly proclaim environmental activism.
MCA Inc. is making points with a company recycling program and
earth-friendly television shows, movies, videos and records. But some
critics say the entertainment conglomerate is mismanaging Yosemite
National Park, which an MCA subsidiary oversees.
Industrial giants from Exxon Corp. to Union Carbide Corp. present
fat targets for environmentalists. But the reach of the green
movement has grown so much that even Disney and MCA, home of such
squeaky-clean characters as Snow White and E.T., now must answer to
the ecological accountants.
Not long ago, the world looked to Hollywood for escapism. In recent
years, however, public pressure has led the entertainment industry to
reexamine its depiction of alcohol abuse, violence toward women, sex
and bigotry.
Now that the environment has become the hot issue, Hollywood once
again is trying to set an example.
NBC's ''ALF'' is among the most environmentally conscious TV shows.
One recent episode had the furry alien battling chlorofluorocarbon
polluters. NBC distributed note pads of recycled paper to advertise
the show.
The episode reflected well on NBC and its parent, General Electric
Co. But GE isn't ranked too highly by environmental groups.
At GE's annual meeting April 25, for example, shareholder activists
have resolutions on the agenda urging the company to devise a plan to
stop producing hazardous wastes and cut its own chlorofluorocarbon
pollution.
These days, the entertainment industry is not content generating
ecological programs, such as The Disney Channel's presentation this
month of anti-pollution shows.
Instead, many Hollywood companies are practicing their own
environmentalism. Disney and MCA, for example, say they're motivated
by genuine concern.
''We're not out to publicize our efforts,'' said Garrett De Bell,
MCA's environmental consultant.
Last month Disney appointed a new environmental czar, Kym Murphy,
who reports directly to company chieftains Michael Eisner and Frank
Wells.
''Our ability to influence is remarkable, and the perception people
have of us is really hard to live up to,'' Murphy said.
Has Disney done so? Not entirely, he acknowledged.
''I think if you ask people, 'Does Disney recycle,' they would say,
'Gee, they must if anybody does.' ''
In fact, Disney does not. Disney is anxious to start a better
program, he said.
One of Murphy's first chores was contacting the Procter & Gamble
Co., which bought the rights to print Disney characters on the
adhesive strips on Disney Babies disposable diapers.
Disposable diapers are among the fastest-growing components of
landfill rubbish. About 16 billion are dumped each year, and
environmentalists say they can take decades to decompose.
Murphy said Procter & Gamble researchers are ''pulling out all the
stops'' to make their products more environmentally safe.
His other chief environmental headache has been Disney's quasi-city
government that exercises near-total power over 27,000 acres
surrounding the company's Florida operations, home of Walt Disney
World and other fun parks.
For the past two years, Disney has come under heavy criticism from
some local community leaders who say it doesn't foot enough of the
environmental costs generated by millions of tourists.
Disney finally agreed to pay $14 million in additional property
taxes, but then angered locals even more by announcing construction
of seven more hotels, 29 new attractions, a fourth amusement park and
19,000 more workers.
''They can go out there and pave over anything they want to do
without going through any kind of environmental review,'' said Bill
Donegan, an Orange County, Fla. commissioner who's led an effort to
make Disney more accountable.
''We don't know the real impact environmentally. We don't know how
many woodpeckers' nests have been destroyed, how many eagles, how
many ospreys.''
MCA has been trumpeting its attention to the environment, both on
the Universal Studios lot and in film and TV. At MCA offices in
Universal City, a company-wide recycling program has been started
using containers decorated with a Woody Woodpecker logo.
The staff at Universal Television, an MCA subsidiary, met last fall
with representatives of the Environmental Media Association, an
organization that promotes earth-friendly messages in the
entertainment industry.
EMA director Andy Spahn said producers asked how recycling themes
could be incorporated into storylines.
''This is not a problem that can be solved by government action
alone,'' Spahn said. ''Through film, television and music, the
industry is in a unique position to reach millions of people and show
them they can make a difference.''
Others say the real test of a company's commitment to the
environment is not whether it makes shows about recycling. More
important, they say, is whether its decisions do more for the planet
than for profits.
''High-profile companies cannot change the world single-handedly,
but they can set an example,'' said Richard Branson, chairman of
Virgin Records and Virgin Atlantic Airways and a long-time
environmental activist.
''It's so often people will talk about causes without doing
something that actually affects themselves or their business,'' said
Branson.
Sleeves for Virgin's records (artists include Paula Abdul and Soul
II Soul) are made of recycled paper. Virgin Atlantic says it will
plant a tree for every passenger flying between London and Los
Angeles in the next 12 months.
At the Hard Rock Cafe chain, employees sort waste paper and beverage
bottles, said founder Peter Morton.
''We're not suddenly converts to the environmental movement now that
it's fashionable,'' he said, noting that the phrase ''Save the
Planet'' has been part of the company's logo for 10 years.
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Earth Day 1990 Has Tough Act to Follow
An AP News Analysis
By WALTER R. MEARS
AP Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON (AP) - Somehow, the sequel seldom measures up to the
original. And Earth Day plus 20 fits that pattern.
Two decades later, the Earth Day replay dwarfs the 1970 version.
Sunday's demonstrations are on an international stage and scale;
organizers hope that 200 million people will be involved, 10 times as
many as in the first Earth Day.
But for political-environmental impact, that first one won't be
matched. It was a demonstration of youthful fervor with a
counter-culture flavor, and it dramatized the rise of environmental
concerns toward the top of the U.S. political agenda.
Politicians who hadn't seen the issue coming grabbed on as it went
by, and the federal framework of environmental agencies and laws
quickly took shape - under a Republican administration.
It was a classic exercise in movement politics, one that became a
case study for years afterward at the Harvard Business School.
The replay has something in common with the brief, photogenic events
that have become central in American election campaigning. It will
feature celebrities, stunts and gimmicks along with the heavier fare
of advancing an environmental agenda of changing, moving targets.
The environmental movement has matured; while it still poses
challenges to the establishment, still counts radicals along its
fringes, it has become part of the establishment. That guarantees
environmentalists their place at the table. It also makes them
subject to the priority debates and bargaining rules of a
deficit-plagued federal government.
Two of the leaders of the new Earth Day are men who led the first
one; they are looking for massive, grassroots involvement to send a
message of public commitment to world political leaders. Gaylord
Nelson, former Wisconsin senator, now with the Wilderness Society,
ignited the first Earth Day movement by suggesting an environmental
teach-in in a 1969 speech. The idea took off. Denis Hayes, then 24,
became the national coordinator of the first one; now an
environmental lawyer, he is chairman of Earth Day 1990.
The budget for the original was about $125,000. Earth Day 1990 has a
staff of about 30, and will spend between $2.5 and $3 million. That
financing includes some corporate contributions, although more money
has been spurned because it was offered by companies the organizers
considered to be polluters.
Some of those same corporate interests now say that environmental
measures are not a threat to economic progress as they once claimed.
The petroleum industry has adopted a set of environmental principles.
In the buildup to Earth Day, more than 100 companies showed their
wares in tents on the Mall in front of the Capitol, at an
environmental trade show called Earth Tech. Protesters called it
industry greenwash.
''Twenty years ago, environmentalists believed that the economics
would always be against us,'' William K. Reilly, administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency, said last week. ''Environmental
regulators believed that, too.
''Over the last 20 years, we have learned that we need to arrange a
marriage between environmental and economic considerations,'' he
said.
That wasn't the atmosphere surrounding Earth Day 1970, which had the
tone and some of the tactics of the student demonstrations of the
time. It was the era of teach-ins and mass marches protesting the war
in Vietnam. Both were adapted into that event, with its march and
rally in Washington, mass meetings in other major cities, plus
cleanups, tree plantings and countless other events around the
country.
The timing was right. It was channeled spontaneity, aimed at a
receptive government. Washington and the state governments already
were at work on environmental legislation; the big demonstration of
public sentiment gave it a push.
Democrats organized the first Earth Day; the event got a guarded
endorsement from Richard M. Nixon's White House. But he knew an issue
when he saw one coming. By Earth Day, Nixon had sent messages to
Congress that put his name behind environmental programs the
Democrats had been pushing. And his administration created the
Environmental Protection Agency later that year.
In the sessions that followed, Congress passed a water cleanup law
and tougher clean air legislation.
But it all cost money, and the environmental burst yielded to the
drive against rising inflation and deficits, then to a Reagan
administration which worked to reverse it.
President Bush campaigned as an environmentalist, but his
administration has had periodic run-ins with the movement, most
recently when he called for more research on global warming and was
accused of stalling.
Environmental activists spent much of the week parading in the park
across the street from the White House, protesting what they say is
rhetoric in place of action.
Bush issued a proclamation designating this as Earth Day and saying
it should bring rededication to environmental protection. The first
Earth Day wasn't proclaimed by anybody except the people who staged
it.
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EDITOR'S NOTE - Walter R. Mears, vice president and columnist for
The Associated Press, has reported on Washington and national
politics for more than 26 years.
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Activists Rally for Oil Drilling Ban
By BRIAN MURPHY
Associated Press Writer
KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) - President Bush's silence on environmental
policies affecting Florida's Keys during his visit has not been
matched by activists. They're using his vacation as a forum to call
for an offshore oil drilling ban.
Several organizations have announced plans for demonstrations this
weekend in Islamorada, where Bush has scheduled a fishing excursion
and a ceremony honoring a coral reef preservation group on Sunday.
One group has promised daiquiris mixed in solar-powered blenders.
Also, some officials have criticized the administration's inaction
on the oil drilling issue and Sunday's upcoming Earth Day
celebrations to assail Bush, who proclaimed himself the
''environmental president'' while campaigning.
''For Bush to remain silent when all of the Florida Keys is opposed
to offshore oil drilling is appalling,'' said Ann Whitfield,
executive director of the Florida Public Interest Research Group.
''This would have been the time to act, but he missed an opportunity
to show he has a real interest in the environment.''
Bush has said he is willing to ban drilling in some environmentally
sensitive areas, but stopped short of guaranteeing protection of the
Florida Keys.
Rep. Dante Fascell, D-Fla., urged Bush to ban oil drilling and
support a Coast Guard plan to move shipping lanes farther from
fragile reefs off the Keys, where three freighters ran aground last
year.
''You know all the arguments and I look forward to the day when we
will spend our time telling fish stories instead of debating the
issues,'' Fascell said in a letter to Bush issued Thursday.
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Thursday that Bush will
not make a policy announcement on the oil drilling issue this
weekend. Fitzwater said a task-force report on oil drilling off
Florida and California needs more study.
The special presidential task force issued its report in January,
but the findings have not been disclosed. A temporary moratorium on
oil exploration on key tracts off the California and Florida expires
Oct. 1.
There are 73 leases issued to oil companies off Florida's southwest
coast affected by the present moratorium. In California, oil
companies have proposed developing millions of acres off the state's
central and northern coasts.
On Saturday, Greenpeace and several others groups will hold a mock
''before and after'' protest to illustrate the damage an oil spill
would have on the Keys' sensitive coral reefs and mangrove coastline.
The following day at the lodge where Bush is staying, members of
Environmental Solutions Inc. have scheduled an exhibit to show energy
alternatives to oil. An invitation to the event promises daiquiris
mixed in solar-powered blenders.
Among the proposals endorsed by environmental groups is revoking the
73 oil leases and permanently banning off-shore drilling south of 26
degrees north latitude, a bill co-sponsored by Florida's two U.S.
senators. That latitude runs across Florida roughly from Naples to
Fort Lauderdale.
A ban on oil drilling in the Everglades is scheduled to be
considered next month by Gov. Bob Martinez.
''We have a unique opportunity here as environmentalists - to solve
a problem before it becomes a problem,'' said Ms. Whitfield.
On Key Largo, the threat of an oil spill from a tanker or off-shore
rig is particularly worrisome to those who make their livings off the
reef and the clear waters.
''One oil spill - one mistake - and the Keys as we know them are
gone,'' said Anthony Greene, who operates snorkling tours. ''It's
goodbye Keys, hello New Jersey.''
Studies of a 1986 oil spill off Panama show severe damage to coral
reefs and oil seeping deep into the sediment in the mangrove areas,
said Lisa Speer, senior scientists at the New York-based Natural
Resources Defense Council.
''A spill in the Keys would be quite different than the Valdez spill
in Alaska,'' said Ms. Speer. ''Without the pounding wave action, the
oil filters down and remains there. It would be a huge tragedy.''
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By CHRISTOPHER CONNELL
Associated Press Writer
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - President Bush designated five environmentally
troubled waterways Friday for intense review and development of
cleanup plans, including the bay that leads into Boston's polluted
harbor.
The president said the waterways in Maine, Massachusetts, Louisiana
and Florida would become part of the National Estuary Program and be
eligible for some of the $16 million in federal funds under the
program.
Congress established the National Estuary Program in 1987 to help
protect and improve the environmental quality of significant
estuaries. Twelve estuaries already are in the conservation program.
Under the program, federal and state money is used for a five-year
study and planning effort aimed at identifying key environmental
problems and ways to resolve them. States must provide some matching
funds.
The five waterways singled out by Bush are Tampa Bay and the Indian
River Complex, both in Florida; the Barataria-Terrebonne Estuarine
Complex in Louisiana; Casco Bay in Maine, and Massachusetts Bay in
Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Bay leads into Boston Harbor, which became a subject
of debate in the 1988 presidential campaign after Bush criticized
Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis for not cleaning up the harbor.
Since then, some environmentalists have criticized the Bush
administration for not providing federal money for further harbor
cleanup in Boston.
Bush, speaking at a fund-raising dinner for Florida's Republican
Party in Orlando, said he was pleased to make the announcement on
expanding the estuary program ''as we head into the Earth Day.''
''It's a good first step,'' Rudy Rosen, an expert waterway
conservation problems for the National Wildlife Federation, of the
president's action.
But Rosen added that the designation would mean little if not
followed by further action. ''Designation is great, but it's got to
be backed with regulatory enforcement, both state and federal, and
the money to do the job,'' he said in an interview.
Paul Pritchard, president of the National Parks and Conservation
Association, called the announcement ''a good step'' but said on many
environmental areas the president has ''backtracked badly'' from
campaign promises.
Bush also came under attack Friday from congressional Democrats who
accused the president of not following his rhetoric with action on
environmental issues.
A group of Democratic senators, including Majority Leader George
Mitchell of Maine, criticized Bush for not moving more aggressively
to deal with global warming, opting instead to call for additional
research.
Sen. Albert Gore, D-Tenn., said Bush failed to ''provide the
leadership'' earlier in the week at an international White House
conference on global warming. European delegates have sought
commitments on specific reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, while
the White House has said more research is needed for such pollution
controls should be sought.
''President Bush refused to call the nation to action on the serious
problem of global warming, rather he used (the conference) to call
attention to all of the obstacles,'' said Mitchell at a news
conference to discuss Earth Day.
In the House, Democrats called on Bush to celebrate Earth Day by
declaring his support for legislation that would force federal
agencies to comply with the same environmental laws the government
imposes on industry.
''The federal government has operated under a ''do as I say, not as
I do'' rule,'' more than 80 House Democrats said in a letter to Bush.
Although Bush promised during his campaign to bring the government
agencies into compliance with federal environmental laws, the White
House has opposed efforts in Congress to mandate such compliance as
part of a bill elevating the Environmental Protection Agency to
cabinet level.
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Recycling the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
With BC-Corporate Ecology
By JOHN HORN
AP Entertainment Writer
HOLLYWOOD (AP) - Do celebrities really care about spotted owls, the
ozone layer and rain forests? Or are they simply tree-hugging the
cause of the week?
The evidence suggests that while numerous entertainers - actor Ed
Begley Jr. and singer Jackson Browne among them - have adapted
environmentally friendly living practices, many others are slow to
practice what they preach.
At a recent Beverly Hills benefit for the Brazilian rain forest, an
array of Hollywood celebrities - superstars like Jane Fonda and agent
Michael Ovitz - were warned of the dangers of global warming and
pollution.
The 1,000 or so guests, who dined on organic foods, raised $1.2
million for the environment. Most carpooled, but the scores who
didn't went for their limos, which idled patiently, stretching for
blocks. Exhaust filled the evening air.
It was scarcely an isolated slip. When Hollywood's blue-ribbon
Environmental Media Association held its first organizational meeting
at producer Norman Lear's house, EMA founders arrived in Mercedes,
BMWs, Rolls-Royces and other gas-guzzlers.
Producer Ted Field and wife Susie, who hosted the Beverly Hills rain
forest benefit, are longtime contributors to the Natural Resources
Defense Council and charter members of EMA. They also have been known
to fly to their spacious Aspen home in a private jet.
''It's great celebrities are getting involved,'' said Bob Hattoy, a
lobbyist for the Sierra Club. ''But it's not about doing lunch. It's
about changing the way that we live. Lifestyles of the rich and
famous are often lifestyles of the wasteful and indulgent.''
''The entertainment industry is symbolic of the values of everyone
in our culture,'' said Bonnie Reiss, who founded the Earth
Communications Office. ECO seeks to add environmental themes to
television shows and movies.
''We have to get the rich and famous to truly examine their
lifestyles,'' Reiss said.
Environmentalism has yet to become Hollywood's flavor of the month.
It has long been the land of excess, and tradition does not die
easily.
At an April news conference for ABC's Earth Day special, celebrity
performers were ferried to the event in - you guessed it -
limousines.
Tom Cruise has visited the Amazonian rain forest and is a member of
the ECO. So is his next movie about global warming? Not quite. Cruise
stars next in ''Days of Thunder,'' a movie about the hardly
fuel-efficient sport of auto racing.
Scientists estimate a third of all global-warming gases are
transportation-produced; neither Paramount Pictures nor Cruise's
publicist could say how many thousands of gallons of fuel were used
making ''Days of Thunder.''
Olivia Newton-John, a top environmental activist, is damaging a
stretch of the Southern California coastline, her Malibu neighbors
have charged in a civl complaint.
Newton-John and her husband have polluted the ocean with tons of
dirt and sand removed during the construction of their
6,000-square-foot home overlooking the beach, the complaint charges.
''It's blown way out of proportion,'' Newton-John said. ''I had an
environmental specialist look at the property. I care about the
environment.''
Die-hard environmentalists don't wear furs or leather. So how did
people dress at the Beverly Hills rain forest benefit?
Singer Don Henley, who performed at the fund-raiser, said he had
visited the cloakroom before coming on stage. What did he see?
''About a quarter of a million dollars' worth of dead animals.''
Actor Begley is one of the handful of personalities who has
reordered his life to save the planet. He rides a bicycle or takes
the bus to work, has a compost heap in his backyard and has installed
15-watt bulbs in his house.
''We don't need any more definition of environmental problems,''
Begley said. ''We need action.''
David Zucker, co-director of ''Airplane!'' and the director of
''Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad,'' now drives an electric
car. Dennis Weaver, star of the TV series ''McCloud,'' has designed
an ''ecologically balanced'' house in Colorado.
''We're building it out of old tires packed with dirt,'' the actor
said. ''The electricity will come from solar cells and all water will
be heated by the sun.''
Other leading earth activists include Ted Danson, Lloyd Bridges,
Hart Bochner and Melanie Mayron.
Reiss said that Cruise organized a recycling program on the ''Days
of Thunder'' set, lives in a modest house and rides his motorcycle to
save fuel.
''I feel Tom Cruise is extremely committed,'' Reiss said. ''Does he
have room to grow? Everyone has room to grow.''
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Paul McCartney says rock stars are
singing more about ecological issues because world leaders aren't
doing enough to protect the earth's environment.
''Governments - especially George Bush and Margaret Thatcher -
aren't doing enough work,'' the former Beatle said at a news
conference Friday.
The 47-year-old singer, his wife, Linda, their children and his band
have been in Rio since Wednesday for two shows expected to break
attendence records.
Jeff Baker, McCartney's press spokesman, said 150,000 tickets were
sold for Friday's show and all 175,000 tickets were sold for today's
concert at Rio's Maracana soccer stadium, the world's largest arena.
Previously, the largest crowd to watch McCartney in concert numbered
80,000.
The Rio shows were to close a 33-city world concert tour. But
McCartney told reporters he was considering proposals to extend the
tour to Liverpool, England - the Beatles' hometown - in May.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Argentines as interested in Gabriela
Sabatini's personal life as her tennis career are openly nosy about
the young German with whom the 20-year-old star returned this week to
Buenos Aires.
''Guess What the Young Woman Brought Home,'' the newspaper Pagina 12
titled a story on Ms. Sabatini's return Monday. ''Gaby Brought Her
Boyfriend to Argentina,'' gushed Diario Popular.
Reporters from newspapers, TV and radio stations beseiged Ms.
Sabatini for interviews.
''Frank Unterback is a very nice German boy and we're spending a few
very lovely days together,'' Ms. Sabatini told the newspaper La
Nacion. ''I'm very happy with my friend.''
Having a husband and children are dreams of every woman, the world's
No. 4-ranked woman tennis player told ATC Channel 7, the state
station.
A camera showed Unterback, a 24-year-old employee of a sports store
in Stuttgart, smiling hesitantly as her comments were translated. The
couple speak English to each other.
---
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hundreds of Janet Jackson fans whooped and
hollered as Michael Jackson's sister received a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame.
''I'm very honored and very proud,'' Miss Jackson told fans jamming
sidewalks, standing on cars and leaning out of office windows on Vine
Street on Friday. Police estimated the raucous crowd at 1,800.
The singer, clad in black boots, black jeans, black turtleneck and a
black baseball cap, was honored with the walk's 1,911th star, next to
one for rhumba king Xavier Cugat.
---
SEATTLE (AP) - Jim Whittaker, the first American to reach the summit
of the world's highest mountain, will return to the Mount Everest
International Peace Climb expedition after hurting his leg.
Whittaker, 61, of Port Townsend, will direct a group of American,
Soviet and Chinese climbers to the top, the expedition's officials
said in a statement. He plans to return to the mountain on Thursday.
Whittaker was forced to leave the expedition two weeks ago because
of a severely torn muscle in his left calf. He has received medical
treatment in Katmandu, Nepal. Deputy expedition leader Warren
Thompson led the climb in Whittaker's absence.
Dianne Roberts, Whittaker's wife and the climb's executive director,
said the climbers expect to make attempts on the 29,028-foot summit
about May 1.
The expedition's goal is to place an American, a Soviet and a
Chinese climber together on the summit and, during descent, collect
trash and debris left by previous climbers on the mountain. The $1
million expedition began in February.
Whittaker reached the top of Everest in 1963.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - ''Chattahoochee,'' a new movie based on
Chris Calhoun's efforts to reform inhumane and brutal conditions at
Florida State Hospital, is helping the former mental patient fulfill
a goal he set when he was released 28 years ago.
''I promised those who were left behind that I would let the world
know what happened there,'' Calhoun said in an interview Friday.
The film, named for the Florida Panhandle town where the hospital is
located, about 40 miles northwest of Tallahassee, opened Friday in
Los Angeles and New York and is scheduled to begin appearing
nationwide May 11.
Although fictionalized, it is based on the real-life experiences of
Calhoun, a Korean War veteran who was suffering from what now is
known as post-traumatic stress syndrome.
Calhoun, 56, was committed in 1956 after he shot himself in a failed
suicide attempt, and was released in 1962 after an investigation
spurred by letters he wrote that were smuggled from the hospital.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The district attorney's office said three
physicians who treated Elizabeth Taylor overprescribed narcotics for
the actress but will not be criminally prosecuted.
''It is clear that the prescribing practices of these physicians
fell below the accepted standard of medical practice,'' Deputy
District Attorney Daniel Feldstern wrote in a report on Drs. William
Skinner, Michael Gottlieb and Michael Roth.
''However, it is equally clear that these physicians, in trying to
resolve the patient's medical condition, were also attempting to deal
with her addiction through alternative means of therapy and
treatment, and that their conduct was lacking in the requisite
criminal intent.''
The district attorney's office will refer the case to the state
medical board.
In 1983, Miss Taylor acknowledged a 35-year addiction to sleeping
pills and painkillers prescribed for health problems, and she was
treated at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage for alcohol and
drug abuse.
She was treated by the three doctors in 1987 and 1988. Among drugs
Skinner prescribed were Demerol, Percodan, Valium, Ativan, Xanax,
Preludin and Dilaudin.
On Friday, meanwhile, Miss Taylor, 58, was in stable condition with
pneumonia at St. John's Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica.
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200 Million Expected To Wave Green Flag for Planet Earth
With LaserPhotos, LaserColor
By PAUL RAEBURN
AP Science Editor
An estimated 200 million people in villages, cities and state
capitals in the United States and in 135 countries will wave the
green flag for planet Earth on Sunday to celebrate the 20th
anniversary of the first Earth Day.
At last count, demonstrations, parades, concerts and festivals were
planned in some 3,600 American communities, said Earth Day 1990, a
coalition of groups helping to coordinate activities.
''Earth Day 1990's campaign clearly has struck a nerve in the
American public and in people around the world,'' Denis Hayes, the
group's chairman, said in a statement. ''People are tired of the
failure of leadership from elected officials and corporate policy
makers on environmental issues.''
Polls have shown repeatedly that Americans indicate they will make
sacrificies for a cleaner environment.
More than eight in 10 Americans say they will separate their trash
for recycling, give up plastic fast-food containers and needless
packaging materials, and get their cars inspected annually to cut
emissions, according to one of the latest surveys, a Wall Street
Journal-NBC News poll released Friday.
More than two-thirds of the respondents said they would pay up to
$600 more for a less polluting car.
That reflects a sharp change from a decade ago. In 1981, only 51
percent of those polled said that protecting the environment was more
important than keeping prices down. Now 80 percent say they favor
environmental protection over cost savings.
The Earth Day celebrations will be as diverse as the groups
sponsoring them. In Richmond, Va., four tons of household garbage
will be dumped on a park lawn to provide a hands-on lesson in
recycling.
Students from the University of New Orleans will hold a jazz funeral
for heavily polluted Lake Ponchartrain.
In Georgia, prisoners planted more than 100,000 trees and shrubs in
anticipation of Earth Day, and work began on a 110-mile canoe trail
through Georgia's coastal marshes.
''We want this Earth Day to have an emphasis on things that will
last,'' said Robert Kerr, senior vice president of the Georgia
Conservancy.
In New York City, a model of the Earth will rise where the ball
usually falls on New Year's Eve to symbolize the beginning of the
decade of the environment. A concert in Central Park will feature
Hall and Oates, the B-52s, Carly Simon, Edie Brickel and others.
Tom Cruise will be host of a gathering of politicians,
conservationists and entertainers on Capitol Hill in Washington. Jane
Alexander, Kevin Bacon, Bruce Hornsby, Branford Marsalis and Olivia
Newton-John are among the celebrities who will be on hand.
At 6 a.m., activists will hold a candlelight Mass wearing black
shrouds and death masks outside the Oak Ridge Nuclear Weapons
Facility in Knoxville, Tenn. The point is to symbolize the
destructiveness of war and the waste of resources that might
otherwise be devoted to repairing the environment, organizers said.
Earth Day's organizers hope it will kick off a new decade of
environmental awareness, much as the original Earth Day in 1970
launched a decade that saw the creation of the Environmental
Protection Agency and the passage of landmark environmental
legislation.
''Earth Day 1990 must do the same - promote enactment of a new,
truly clean air act, accelerate a worldwide ban on CFCs, encourage
community groups to work with neighboring industry to prevent adverse
health effects from industrial emissions, and involve individuals in
the effort to improve the state of the environment,'' said Hayes.
The government also must reduce dependence on fossil fuels by
creating incentives for conservation and energy efficiency and by
promoting research on alternative energy sources, he said.
The initial Earth Day was conceived by Gaylord Nelson of The
Wilderness Society, who was then a senator from Wisconsin, as an
''environmental teach-in'' modeled after the anti-Vietnam War
teach-ins of that era.
On Friday, Nelson called on students at Indiana University to form a
''conservation generation.''
''I don't want to have to come limping back here 20 years from
now,'' said Nelson, 74, ''and have the embarrassing responsibility of
telling your sons and daughters that you didn't do your duty.''
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Ridge, Tenn., west of Knoxville. The point is to symbolize the
destructiveness of war and the waste of resources that might
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Many countries celebrate the planet on June 5, the World Environment
Day instituted by the United Nations, but many others have jumped on
the Earth Day bandwagon.
Some 10,000 South Koreans are expected to attend a rally Sunday
called ''Korea Earth Day '90'' in central Seoul; in Japan, a festival
will be held on a Tokyo Bay island built with landfill consisting
mostly of the city's garbage.
In Ireland, the group Earthwatch kicks off a week of events Sunday,
including a children's parade through 11 Irish towns and a festival
at Dublin's St. Stephen's Green park called ''Green on the Green.''
In Britain, activities range from a marathon to benefit rain forest
preservation to an effort by mountain climbers to clear up debris
left by previous climbers.
Kuwait marks Earth Day as host to the Regional Organization for
Protection of the Maritime Environment, a group of eight
oil-producing countries.
Czechoslovakia's events include a relay race Sunday that culminating
atop Mount of St. Catherine near the East German border. President
Vaclav Havel will symbolically plant a tree on Earth Day at the
presidential estate in Lany.
In the United States, polls have shown repeatedly that Americans say
they will make sacrifices for a cleaner environment.
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200 Million Expected To Wave Green Flag for Planet Earth
With LaserPhotos, LaserColor
By PAUL RAEBURN
AP Science Editor
An estimated 200 million people in villages, cities and state
capitals in the United States and in 135 countries will wave the
green flag for planet Earth on Sunday to celebrate the 20th
anniversary of the first Earth Day.
At last count, demonstrations, parades, concerts and festivals were
planned in some 3,600 American communities, said Earth Day 1990, a
coalition of groups helping to coordinate activities.
''Earth Day 1990's campaign clearly has struck a nerve in the
American public and in people around the world,'' Denis Hayes, the
group's chairman, said in a statement. ''People are tired of the
failure of leadership from elected officials and corporate policy
makers on environmental issues.''
Polls have shown repeatedly that Americans indicate they will make
sacrificies for a cleaner environment.
More than eight in 10 Americans say they will separate their trash
for recycling, give up plastic fast-food containers and needless
packaging materials, and get their cars inspected annually to cut
emissions, according to one of the latest surveys, a Wall Street
Journal-NBC News poll released Friday.
More than two-thirds of the respondents said they would pay up to
$600 more for a less polluting car.
That reflects a sharp change from a decade ago. In 1981, only 51
percent of those polled said that protecting the environment was more
important than keeping prices down. Now 80 percent say they favor
environmental protection over cost savings.
The Earth Day celebrations will be as diverse as the groups
sponsoring them. In Richmond, Va., four tons of household garbage
will be dumped on a park lawn to provide a hands-on lesson in
recycling.
Students from the University of New Orleans will hold a jazz funeral
for heavily polluted Lake Ponchartrain.
In Georgia, prisoners planted more than 100,000 trees and shrubs in
anticipation of Earth Day, and work began on a 110-mile canoe trail
through Georgia's coastal marshes.
''We want this Earth Day to have an emphasis on things that will
last,'' said Robert Kerr, senior vice president of the Georgia
Conservancy.
In New York City, a model of the Earth will rise where the ball
usually falls on New Year's Eve to symbolize the beginning of the
decade of the environment. A concert in Central Park will feature
Hall and Oates, the B-52s, Carly Simon, Edie Brickel and others.
Tom Cruise will be host of a gathering of politicians,
conservationists and entertainers on Capitol Hill in Washington. Jane
Alexander, Kevin Bacon, Bruce Hornsby, Branford Marsalis and Olivia
Newton-John are among the celebrities who will be on hand.
At 6 a.m., activists will hold a candlelight Mass wearing black
shrouds and death masks outside the Oak Ridge Nuclear Weapons
Facility in Knoxville, Tenn. The point is to symbolize the
destructiveness of war and the waste of resources that might
otherwise be devoted to repairing the environment, organizers said.
Earth Day's organizers hope it will kick off a new decade of
environmental awareness, much as the original Earth Day in 1970
launched a decade that saw the creation of the Environmental
Protection Agency and the passage of landmark environmental
legislation.
''Earth Day 1990 must do the same - promote enactment of a new,
truly clean air act, accelerate a worldwide ban on CFCs, encourage
community groups to work with neighboring industry to prevent adverse
health effects from industrial emissions, and involve individuals in
the effort to improve the state of the environment,'' said Hayes.
The government also must reduce dependence on fossil fuels by
creating incentives for conservation and energy efficiency and by
promoting research on alternative energy sources, he said.
The initial Earth Day was conceived by Gaylord Nelson of The
Wilderness Society, who was then a senator from Wisconsin, as an
''environmental teach-in'' modeled after the anti-Vietnam War
teach-ins of that era.
On Friday, Nelson called on students at Indiana University to form a
''conservation generation.''
''I don't want to have to come limping back here 20 years from
now,'' said Nelson, 74, ''and have the embarrassing responsibility of
telling your sons and daughters that you didn't do your duty.''
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destructiveness of war and the waste of resources that might
otherwise be devoted to repairing the environment, organizers said.
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Many countries celebrate the planet on June 5, the World Environment
Day instituted by the United Nations, but many others have jumped on
the Earth Day bandwagon.
Some 10,000 South Koreans are expected to attend a rally Sunday
called ''Korea Earth Day '90'' in central Seoul; in Japan, a festival
will be held on a Tokyo Bay island built with landfill consisting
mostly of the city's garbage.
In Ireland, the group Earthwatch kicks off a week of events Sunday,
including a children's parade through 11 Irish towns and a festival
at Dublin's St. Stephen's Green park called ''Green on the Green.''
In Britain, activities range from a marathon to benefit rain forest
preservation to an effort by mountain climbers to clear up debris
left by previous climbers.
Kuwait marks Earth Day as host to the Regional Organization for
Protection of the Maritime Environment, a group of eight
oil-producing countries.
Czechoslovakia's events include a relay race Sunday that culminating
atop Mount of St. Catherine near the East German border. President
Vaclav Havel will symbolically plant a tree on Earth Day at the
presidential estate in Lany.
In the United States, polls have shown repeatedly that Americans say
they will make sacrifices for a cleaner environment.
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200 Million Expected To Wave Green Flag for Planet Earth
With LaserPhotos, LaserColor
By PAUL RAEBURN
AP Science Editor
An estimated 200 million people in villages, cities and state
capitals in the United States and in 135 countries will wave the
green flag for planet Earth on Sunday to celebrate the 20th
anniversary of the first Earth Day.
At last count, demonstrations, parades, concerts and festivals were
planned in some 3,600 American communities, said Earth Day 1990, a
coalition of groups helping to coordinate activities.
''Earth Day 1990's campaign clearly has struck a nerve in the
American public and in people around the world,'' Denis Hayes, the
group's chairman, said in a statement. ''People are tired of the
failure of leadership from elected officials and corporate policy
makers on environmental issues.''
Polls have shown repeatedly that Americans indicate they will make
sacrificies for a cleaner environment.
More than eight in 10 Americans say they will separate their trash
for recycling, give up plastic fast-food containers and needless
packaging materials, and get their cars inspected annually to cut
emissions, according to one of the latest surveys, a Wall Street
Journal-NBC News poll released Friday.
More than two-thirds of the respondents said they would pay up to
$600 more for a less polluting car.
That reflects a sharp change from a decade ago. In 1981, only 51
percent of those polled said that protecting the environment was more
important than keeping prices down. Now 80 percent say they favor
environmental protection over cost savings.
The Earth Day celebrations will be as diverse as the groups
sponsoring them. In Richmond, Va., four tons of household garbage
will be dumped on a park lawn to provide a hands-on lesson in
recycling.
Students from the University of New Orleans will hold a jazz funeral
for heavily polluted Lake Ponchartrain.
In Georgia, prisoners planted more than 100,000 trees and shrubs in
anticipation of Earth Day, and work began on a 110-mile canoe trail
through Georgia's coastal marshes.
''We want this Earth Day to have an emphasis on things that will
last,'' said Robert Kerr, senior vice president of the Georgia
Conservancy.
In New York City, a model of the Earth will rise where the ball
usually falls on New Year's Eve to symbolize the beginning of the
decade of the environment. A concert in Central Park will feature
Hall and Oates, the B-52s, Carly Simon, Edie Brickel and others.
Tom Cruise will be host of a gathering of politicians,
conservationists and entertainers on Capitol Hill in Washington. Jane
Alexander, Kevin Bacon, Bruce Hornsby, Branford Marsalis and Olivia
Newton-John are among the celebrities who will be on hand.
At 6 a.m., activists will hold a candlelight Mass wearing black
shrouds and death masks outside the Oak Ridge Nuclear Weapons
Facility in Knoxville, Tenn. The point is to symbolize the
destructiveness of war and the waste of resources that might
otherwise be devoted to repairing the environment, organizers said.
Earth Day's organizers hope it will kick off a new decade of
environmental awareness, much as the original Earth Day in 1970
launched a decade that saw the creation of the Environmental
Protection Agency and the passage of landmark environmental
legislation.
''Earth Day 1990 must do the same - promote enactment of a new,
truly clean air act, accelerate a worldwide ban on CFCs, encourage
community groups to work with neighboring industry to prevent adverse
health effects from industrial emissions, and involve individuals in
the effort to improve the state of the environment,'' said Hayes.
The government also must reduce dependence on fossil fuels by
creating incentives for conservation and energy efficiency and by
promoting research on alternative energy sources, he said.
The initial Earth Day was conceived by Gaylord Nelson of The
Wilderness Society, who was then a senator from Wisconsin, as an
''environmental teach-in'' modeled after the anti-Vietnam War
teach-ins of that era.
On Friday, Nelson called on students at Indiana University to form a
''conservation generation.''
''I don't want to have to come limping back here 20 years from
now,'' said Nelson, 74, ''and have the embarrassing responsibility of
telling your sons and daughters that you didn't do your duty.''
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shrouds and death masks outside the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant at Oak
Ridge, Tenn., west of Knoxville. The point is to symbolize the
destructiveness of war and the waste of resources that might
otherwise be devoted to repairing the environment, organizers said.
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Many countries celebrate the planet on June 5, the World Environment
Day instituted by the United Nations, but many others have jumped on
the Earth Day bandwagon.
Some 10,000 South Koreans are expected to attend a rally Sunday
called ''Korea Earth Day '90'' in central Seoul; in Japan, a festival
will be held on a Tokyo Bay island built with landfill consisting
mostly of the city's garbage.
In Ireland, the group Earthwatch kicks off a week of events Sunday,
including a children's parade through 11 Irish towns and a festival
at Dublin's St. Stephen's Green park called ''Green on the Green.''
In Britain, activities range from a marathon to benefit rain forest
preservation to an effort by mountain climbers to clear up debris
left by previous climbers.
Kuwait marks Earth Day as host to the Regional Organization for
Protection of the Maritime Environment, a group of eight
oil-producing countries.
Czechoslovakia's events include a relay race Sunday that culminating
atop Mount of St. Catherine near the East German border. President
Vaclav Havel will symbolically plant a tree on Earth Day at the
presidential estate in Lany.
In the United States, polls have shown repeatedly that Americans say
they will make sacrifices for a cleaner environment.
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Japan Running Out of Room For Its Garbage
TOKYO (AP) - Japan will soon run out of room to stash its trash, the
government said Saturday.
''The problem is a disease of extravagance,'' said Tetsuo Hayakawa,
spokesman for the Health and Welfare Ministry's environmental affairs
division. ''People are throwing away everything, even things still
good enough to use.''
The mountainous island nation, comparable in size to California,
created 48.3 million tons of trash in 1988, 3.9 percent more than the
year before, the Health and Welfare Ministry said. It rushed to
compile the data months ahead of schedule in time for international
Earth Day Sunday.
The volume of trash produced by the nation's industries and 120
million people was enough to fill Japan's largest stadium, the Tokyo
Dome, 130 times over, the ministry said.
Hayakawa said that if the Japanese continue wasting resources at the
current pace, they will create more than 60 million tons of trash by
1994, and there will not be enough space to bury it.
He blamed the wasteful use of computer paper in offices and
consumers' growing use of disposable products, such as plastic
bottles and even cameras.
In addition, people are buying new home appliances and throwing out
old refrigerators, televisions and the like in vast numbers, he said.
In Tokyo, Japan's largest city, paper from offices accounts for
about 42 percent of the city's trash, while kitchen garbage makes up
37 percent. Plastics, metals, glass and other materials account for
the rest.
Aside from landfill disposal, Tokyo uses 13 incineration plants to
get rid of trash, but these are able to handle only 80 percent of the
city's burnable trash, Hayakawa said, adding that the problem is
similar in many other parts of the country.
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Every Day Earth Day in Earth, Texas
By CHIP BROWN
Associated Press Writer
EARTH, Texas (AP) - Every day is Earth Day in this tiny cattle and
farming community in west Texas.
But the 1,250 folks who live here, called Earthlings, are not
sparing the chance to capitalize on the 20th anniversary Sunday of
the national observance of Earth Day.
''This is the opportunity that we have been waiting for,'' said Noel
Pittman, the town's Earth Day chairwoman. ''This day was made for
Earth, Texas.''
When Earthlings say there is something in the air, they usually mean
dust, tumbleweed or the pungent stench of cattle herds just east of
town. But this weekend they are talking about excitement.
Not since a Dairy Queen commercial was taped in Earth two years ago
has there been such a buzz among the locals, Ms. Pittman said.
''The Dairy Queen commercial put us on the map, at least in Texas,''
she said. ''Most everyone from Earth was in the commercial and people
still talk about it. But we are hoping Earth Day will be even
bigger.''
To ensure a large turnout from natives and surrounding towns, the
Chamber of Commerce held Earth Day activities on Saturday.
City officials acknowledge that many of the people attending the
outdoor ceremony came simply to mix with neighbors in some place
other than the bank or Dairy Queen.
''I am sure there are some people here that have no idea what Earth
Day is or what it means,'' said Ms. Pittman. ''But maybe the
activities will help make them more aware. If not, they will have a
great time greeting folks.''
The post office is capitalizing on Earth Day by issuing a
commemorative postmark.
Since Earth is the only town in the United States with that name, it
is the only place where an Earth Day pictorial postmark can be found,
said postmaster Don Hallett.
The postmark, which is inked across stamps as a void, features a
tree outlined in green with ''April 22, 1990, Earth'' scripted in the
branches.
Mayor Raiford Daniel said he would love to see Earth become the
national headquarters for future Earth Day celebrations.
''This could be the beginning of something big,'' Daniel said.
''That is what we are hoping for. If the rest of the country decides
that we should be the focal point for Earth Day activities, all they
have to do is call. We will be here.''
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Millions of Americans Celebrate The Day That Launched A Movement
By PAUL RAEBURN
AP Science Editor
Millions of Americans gathered in parks and on village greens Sunday
to celebrate a worldwide 20th anniversary party for Earth Day, the
environmental ''teach-in'' that launched a movement.
Thousands watched a hot-air balloon decorated as the Earth rise in
New York's Times Square where the ball falls on New Year's Eve.
Students at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania buried a paper
mache ''Old Earth'' containing a plastic foam cup, aerosol can,
disposable diaper and container of leaded gasoline.
In all, an estimated 3,600 American cities and towns mustered forces
to rejuvenate the environmental movement, born with the original
Earth Day in 1970.
''I get a real sense of a renewal, and a kind of rededication, that
will provide the support for change at the grass-roots level,'' said
John McLachlan, scientific director at the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, N.C.
''There's a sense of urgency that hasn't been there.''
Unlike the first Earth Day, this year's commemoration was an
international event. More than 140 countries on all seven continents
participated.
The international celebration will ''give the clear message to
politicians that millions of people are aware of the problems facing
the earth,'' said Andrew Lees of the British branch of Friends of the
Earth.
President Bush spent the day fishing in the Florida Keys. He paused
to give one of his regular ''point of light'' awards to the citizens
group Reef Relief, which is working to save the coral reef flanking
the Keys.
Bush also said he would back a resolution to keep merchant ships off
the reef. When Craig Quirolo, one of the founders of Reef Relief,
asked for a ban on oil drilling in the Keys, Bush said the answer
would come soon and that Quirolo wouldn't be disappointed. Nine oil
companies hold 73 leases off of the Keys.
In Boston, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles performed for Earth Day.
They ''serve as reminders of how we must care for our environment,''
the show's organizers said. The story goes that it was a toxic
chemical that transformed them from ordinary terrapins into
Hollywood's box-office champs.
The Nature Conservancy marked Earth Day with the signing of
land-protection deals in all 50 states that will protect a total of
71,000 acres of natural terrain. The aim is to help save rare plants
and animals from extinction, the organization said.
The day dawned on a somber note in Oak Ridge, Tenn., where
demonstrators in white death masks and black shrouds held a ''requiem
for the Earth'' at the gates of a nuclear weapons plant.
''We gather this day on soil once filled with the richness of life,
pure and vital,'' said the Rev. Ralph Hutchison of Dandridge, Tenn.
''But the life of this soil is now measured with Geiger counters.''
The demonstration concluded with Ney Pierno, an Amazonian Indian
from Peru, planting an 8-foot black oak as a symbol of life.
''I want to thank you, the whole world, about Earth Day,'' Pierno
said. ''From now on, today, tomorrow and forever, we'll have Earth
Day.''
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Decision on Offshore Drilling Promised 'Very Soon'
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By CHRISTOPHER CONNELL
Associated Press Writer
ISLAMORADA, Fla. (AP) - President Bush, marking Earth Day on a beach
at sunrise, assured environmentalists Sunday they won't be ''too
disappointed'' with his upcoming decision on offshore oil drilling.
Bush, vacationing at a favorite fishing haunt, also unveiled a
present for the Florida Keys: a proposal to bar big ships and vessels
carrying oil or hazardous materials from the sea lanes around its
fragile coral reef.
He announced the United States is petitioning the International
Maritime Organization in London to designate the waters within 10
miles of these islands stretching along the Florida coast as an
''area to be avoided'' by the big ships.
Bush, an avid outdoorsman and angler, went fishing for a second day,
with Curt Gowdy along to film a presidential episode of ''The
American Sportsman.''
Before flying home to Washington, Bush also was placing a late
afternoon call to Nepal to cheer on an international team scaling
Mount Everest on a clean-up mission, and addressing by telephone
thousands of people at an Earth Day rally in the Columbia River Gorge
in Washington state.
The flurry of activities was timed to coincide with the 20th
anniversary of the original Earth Day, which first bred
environmentalism into the national conscience.
The White House staged a photo opportunity at dawn for Bush and
founders of a Key West group, Reef Relief, which on Friday was named
one of Bush's daily ''points of light'' for its efforts to protect
the coral reefs.
Its volunteers install buoys that sightseeing and fishing boats can
tie up to instead of dropping anchor and damaging the reef.
Craig Quirolo, who founded the group with his wife DeeVon, urged the
president in private not to lift a moratorium on drilling in three
environmentally sensitive tracts, two off the California coast and
one here off the Keys and Everglades.
The moratorium has prevented oil companies that paid $109 million
for 73 leases on these tracts in the early 1980s from drilling
exploratory wells.
Bush has postponed for months his decision on whether to allow or
ban drilling in pristine areas. While defending the safety record of
the oil industry on offshore drilling, he has hinted before that he
may be unwilling to subject the Keys and the Everglades to the risks
of a spill.
Bush, a former oilman, said Quirolo ''raised with me the very
sensitive question of offshore drilling. ... I told him there would
be an answer very, very soon. And I didn't think he'd be too
disappointed.''
Florida Gov. Bob Martinez and the small crowd of spectators
applauded.
Outlining the plan to close the sea lanes around the Keys to ships
longer than 50 meters and oil or hazardous material freighters, Bush
said:
''The Exxon Valdez disaster has made us all painfully aware of the
ecological devastation which can result from a major oil spill.''
He called Florida's multi-hued coral reefs ''one of the most diverse
ecosystems in the world and a unique national treasure.''
''Protecting the reefs from damage both from vessel groundings and
pollution is imperative,'' Bush said.
Three ships have run aground and damaged reefs in the past six
months in the sea lanes Bush wants closed. They were the Alec Owen
Maitland, which ran aground last Oct. 26 in the Key Largo National
Marine Sanctuary; the Mavro Vetranic, Oct. 30 in the Forth Jefferson
National Monument; and the Elpis on Nov. 11, also in the Key Largo
sanctuary.
The White House said the International Maritime Organization's
navigation safety subcommittee will consider the petition at its
September meeting in London.
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AP Science Editor
Millions of Americans cleaned up beaches and roadsides, planted
trees and listened to music with a message as they celebrated the
20th anniversary of Earth Day, the ''environmental teach-in'' that
launched a movement.
In all, some 3,600 American cities and towns mustered forces to
rejuvenate the environmental movement that was launched by the
original Earth Day in 1970.
''I get a real sense of a renewal, and a kind of rededication, that
will provide the support for change at the grass-roots level,'' said
John McLachlan, scientific director at the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, N.C.
''There's a sense of urgency that hasn't been there.''
Thousands watched a hot-air balloon - decorated as the Earth - rise
in New York's Times Square where the ball falls on New Year's Eve.
The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a fleet of cars and
trucks powered by alcohol, natural gas and electricity in Ann Arbor,
Mich.
Students at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania buried a paper
mache ''Old Earth'' containing a plastic foam cup, aerosol can,
disposable diaper and container of leaded gasoline.
At a gathering of 125,000 people at the U.S. Capitol in Washington,
several activists criticized President Bush for spending the weekend
fishing in Florida.
One was Peter Bahouth, president of Greenpeace USA, who brought with
him a life-size cardboard cutout of Bush.
Gaylord Nelson of The Wilderness Society, who originated the first
Earth Day when he was a senator from Wisconsin, called for a
grassroots campaign to keep the spirit of Sunday's celebrations alive
in the years to come.
''I don't want to come back here 20 years from now and have to tell
your sons and daughters that you didn't do your duty,'' Nelson, 74,
told his listeners. ''We've to to raise a conservation generation.''
Pennsylvania's Gov. Robert P. Casey led an ''All Species Parade'' in
Philadelphia, playing the pied piper to children dressed in animal
costumes made from recycled materials, and at least one marcher got
the point.
We must recycle, said eleven-year-old Lauren Derby of Philadelphia,
''so that the future generation can have a nice Earth and a nice
environment.''
Hall and Oates, the B-52s, the Saturday Night Live Band and Edie
Brickell and the New Bohemians were among the performers in New
York's Central Park, where an estimated 300,000 people turned out.
On an expressway near the Charles River in Boston, artists used
biodegradable chalk to draw a half-mile-long, multi-colored tableau
of birds, butterflies, flowers and messages like ''Recycle!'' and
''Save The Earth.''
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Millions Celebrate 20th Anniversary of Earth Day
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By DAVID BRIGGS
Associated Press Writer
An estimated 200 million people all over the planet celebrated the
20th anniversary of Earth Day as activists pleaded for the rise of a
new ''conservation generation'' to care for the fragile environment.
Even as a hot air balloon representing the Earth rose in Times
Square and tens of thousands demonstrated at the U.S. Capitol on
Sunday, some worried about sustaining interest in the environment so
that it becomes more than a fad.
''Earth Day is primarily a light we turn on so that we can see the
work. The work is still yet to be done,'' said novelist Wallace
Stegner, who led a pledge of allegiance to the Earth in Palo Alto,
Calif., where Earth Day has its headquarters.
In Washington, Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson urged more than
100,000 people massed at the foot of the Capitol to work to motivate
politicians and corporate leaders to environmental action.
''I don't want to come back here 20 years from now and have to tell
your sons and daughters that you didn't do your duty,'' said Nelson,
74, who originated Earth Day when he was a senator from Wisconsin.
''We've got to raise a conservation generation.''
Earth Day was celebrated in more than 3,600 U.S. communities and in
140 other nations, according to organizers.
Environmentalists collected tons of garbage from Japanese beaches,
sculpted a giant thermometer from a French glacier to protest global
warming and carried a globe on a stretcher, symbolizing a sick Earth,
in a parade in Hong Kong's twin city of Kowloon.
Dire warnings about the planet's future also were issued in rallies
and demonstrations throughout the United States.
''Within 50 years, if we don't change the way we do things, we won't
recognize this Earth,'' consumer activist Ralph Nader told a crowd of
about 1,000 at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
In New Orleans, nearly 1,000 ''mourners'' watched as a band played
dirges in a jazz funeral for polluted Lake Pontchartrain, where
environmentalists have found evidence of ''dead zones'' - areas that
no longer support aquatic life.
In the nation's capitol, environmental activists blasted President
Bush for bypassing the rally to go fishing in Florida. ''Where is the
president today? He's gone fishing!'' railed Ruth Caplan, executive
director of the Environmental Action Foundation.
Bush took a break from his fishing trip in the Florida Keys to give
what he calls a ''point of light'' award to the citizens group Reef
Relief, which is working to save the coral reef flanking the Keys.
In Missouri, thousands of volunteers got down on hands and knees
Sunday to plant 10,000 trees along the Mississippi River.
''The thing that was so incredible was that it was obvious people
wanted to do this kind of thing. This is environmental awareness in
action,'' said Skip Kincaid, urban forester for the Missouri
Department of Conservation.
Pennsylvania Gov. Robert P. Casey led an ''All Species Parade'' in
Philadelphia, playing the pied piper to children in animal costumes
made from recycled materials.
Youngsters dressed up as trees or animals in Carbondale, Ill.
''Earth Day will not save the Earth - it will take several
generations of hard work to save the Earth. So that starts with
children,'' said event organizer Gary Wolf.
In New York, an estimated 1 million people turned to the greenest
part of Manhattan, Central Park, for a concert that included
performances by Hall and Oates, the B-52's, the Roches and the
Saturday Night Live Band. Concerts also drew hundreds of thousands to
Earth Day activities in Boston and San Francisco.
The day also had its critics.
Earth Day activities represent the ''fad stage of issue-awareness
cycles,'' said Steven Lamy, an associate professor of international
relations at the University of Southern California.
After the euphoria ''comes the awareness of how much a real
commitment will cost in time, convenience and money,'' Lamy said.
''That's the stage of the ... cycle when the public tends to lose
interest, and when concern of the issue reverts back to experts.''
In Malibu, Calif., surfers collected litter on the beach. ''We got
quite a few bags of trash, then separated it for recycling, but there
are too many plastic soft drink lids, styrofoam and cigarette butts
in the sand. It really stinks,'' said Dru Lewis.
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More than 125,000 Rally for 'Earth Day' at Capitol
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By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Gaylord Nelson, the founder of Earth Day two
decades ago, looked out at the thousands who gathered at the foot of
the Capitol and talked of the job yet to be done to save the planet
from pollution.
''I don't want to come back here 20 years from now and have to tell
your sons and daughters that you didn't do your duty,'' Nelson, 74,
told the throng that gathered Sunday to join in the worldwide 20th
birthday of Earth Day.
The daylong rally in the nation's capital was one of many across the
country and in 141 nations. ''The numbers are staggering,'' said
Denis Hayes, organizer of the anniversary events, as the people on
the National Mall slowly began to scatter.
He said indications were that as many as 225 million people took
part worldwide.
According to the U.S. Capitol Police, more than 125,000 came to the
U.S. Capitol to hear a string of environmental activists, politicians
and celebrities call for grassroots action to protect the
environment.
Thousands more strolled along other parts of the National Mall and
near an array of environmental exhibits, including a 25-foot-long
section of a 7-foot-thick tree - bought from a sawmill in Washington
state - that dates back more than 700 years to the days of Marco
Polo. It once was among the old-growth forests of the Northwest that
environmentalists are trying to preserve.
''On Earth Day 1990 we hear the voice of the planet and demand that
she be healed,'' declared Hayes, chairman of Earth Day '90 Inc., the
group that led the $3 million effort to remember the original Earth
Day two decades ago.
Several environmental activists blasted President Bush for staying
away from the rally and going fishing in Florida instead. ''Where is
the president today? He's gone fishing!'' railed Ruth Caplan,
executive director of the Environmental Action Foundation.
Bush returned to Washington late Sunday from Florida, where he met
with founders of a Key West group, Reef Relief, which he singled out
for its efforts to protect the coral reefs.
Young people pushed against the barriers near the stage for a closer
glimpse at celebrities such as actors Tom Cruise and Richard Gere and
recording artist John Denver. Further away people, many in shorts and
t-shirts, strolled in the warm sun.
''We must change things. We must pressure our political leaders,''
declared Cruise, who portrayed Vietnam veteran activist Ron Kovic in
the movie ''Born on the Fourth of July.''
Fifteen-year-old Mariah Bauer said she hadn't yet seen Cruise or any
of the other celebrities, but was glad she had come.
''We wanted to help save the Earth, to do our part,'' she said.
To Becky Lopez, 15, and Sonja Goepfert, 20, it was largely a day of
work. Wearing yellow rubber gloves, they were among about 200
volunteers who collected trash discarded by the crowd into paper
collection bags and separated it for recycling.
''Our aim is to get 95 percent of the trash here recycled,'' said
Goepfert.
Farther down the Mall, Margaret Shumaker, a mother of three, could
barely hear the speeches and songs as she changed the diapers of
Noah, 1, using cloth diapers instead of the plastic disposables
disliked by many environmentalists because they do not degrade in
landfills.
''We wouldn't show up without them (the cloth diapers),'' said
Debbie Wills. ''We couldn't show our faces.''
What brought the group to the rally?
''Because we like the Earth,'' said Zachary Shumaker, 7.
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Singer Don Henley Leads Campaign to Protect Walden Pond
By DANA KENNEDY
Associated Press Writer
CONCORD, Mass. (AP) - Last month, 25 years after first reading
''Walden'' in high school in East Texas, rock singer Don Henley
finally visited this picturesque, sandy pond that inspired Henry
David Thoreau more than a century ago.
The Walden Pond he saw, which lies less than a hundred yards from a
highway and is adjacent to a dump, is far less pastoral than when
Walden lived by its shore in a tiny shack in 1845.
''I've been an active environmentalist for over 20 years and part of
that activism stems from reading his works,'' said Henley. ''I just
assumed Walden would be preserved forever.''
The Grammy-winning singer was moved to visit Walden Pond and Walden
Woods after watching a TV report about residents fighting a proposed
condominium project a half mile from the pond.
Proponents of the project, including the developers and some state
officials, say it will mean affordable housing. Residents believe it
will mar the area, and they want to make the 3,000-acre area a
national landmark.
After watching the TV report, Henley organized friends such as
Bonnie Raitt, Glenn Frey, Bob Seger, John Cougar Mellencamp, Don
Johnson and Carrie Fisher for two concerts at the Worcester Centrum
this week to raise money to buy up land near the pond and preserve
it. The amount of money needed has not been disclosed.
''You hear all this hoopla about Earth Day and how far we've come as
a nation and our new consciousness about the environment,'' Henley
said in a telephone interview last week. ''But it seems incredibly
ironic that we can't preserve the place where that consciousness came
from. Thoreau for all practical purposes is the father of the
environmental movement.''
Henley's Walden Woods Project also includes environmental leaders,
scholars and politicians. Henley, 42, is co-chairman along with
Michael Kennedy, 32, the son of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Former Sen.
Paul Tsongas and Mohandas Gandhi's grandson, Arun Gandhi, a writer
and philosopher, are among the members.
The group's focus has been criticized by state officials who say
''the celebrities'' don't realize they are helping block affordable
housing.
Amy S. Anthony, state secretary of communities and development, sent
a letter to Henley claiming his group's campaign is ''a thinly-veiled
attempt on the part of a few to obstruct the construction of
affordable housing in a wealthy suburban community.''
Kennedy, who runs a Boston company that provides low-cost heating
oil to the poor, said affordable housing is compatible with
preservation of Walden Woods.
Walden Pond is a 62-acre body of water in a 333-acre state
reservation on the edge of Concord, an affluent town of 12,500 about
20 miles from Boston.
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Tanker Explosion Forces Evacuation of Town
By TARA BRADLEY-STECK
Associated Press Writer
CRAIGSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - A train carrying a caustic chemical and up
to 210,000 gallons of crude oil derailed and exploded in a fireball,
fouling an Allegheny River tributary and forcing the evacuation of
300 people as Earth Day waned.
Six to eight cars in a 97-car Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad freight
train jumped the tracks in a steep ravine along Buffalo Creek at 9:35
p.m. Sunday, shooting flames several hundred feet high that were seen
10 miles away.
''There was just balls of fire going up in the air,'' said Minnie
Bargerstock, who lives a quarter-mile from the wreck.
About 140 firefighters waited for foam retardant to try to stop the
oil fire because water was ineffective, said Earl Kline, spokesman
for the Armstrong County Emergency Management Authority.
''It's so hot and volatile and it's difficult for firemen to get in
there and get a close look,'' said Betsy Mallison, spokeswoman for
the state Department of Environmental Resources.
Buffalo Creek flows into the Allegheny River 10 to 15 miles
downstream. Communities along the Allegheny were told they might have
to close their drinking-water intake valves.
Three dikes were placed along the rain-swollen creek to collect oil
and sodium hydroxide, a caustic substance used to clean drains. The
amount of sodium hydroxide spilled wasn't immediately released.
''It's still going downstream,'' said Paul Simon of the emergency
agency. ''I can't say it won't go to the Allegheny.''
Three firefighters suffered chemical burns, but their conditions
weren't immediately available, said Ms. Mallison.
A mobile home was damaged, officials said.
The cause of the derailment was under investigation.
''I heard the train coming off the tracks,'' said the Rev. Sharon
Schwab, 38, of United Methodist Church. ''This one sounded funny as
it went through town. It sounded like something was dragging or
hitting the tracks wrong. And then there was a big mechanical
clanging sound.''
Twelve cars carried 26,500 gallons each of crude oil, two carried
sodium hydroxide and two carried chlorine residue, said a Federal
Railway Administration investigator, speaking on condition of
anonymity.
Three hundred residents were evacuated; another 300 in a trailer
court were advised they might have to move because of the sodium
hydroxide.
The train derailed as Earth Day festivities wound down 45 miles away
at Pittsburgh's Point State Park, where an estimated 40,000
celebrated the environmental awareness day.
''What a weird time time for this to happen - on Earth Day,'' said
Ms. Schwab. ''Maybe it will make people begin to realize that we need
to do things so this sort of thing doesn't happen as often as it does
now.''
Tens of thousands of people along the Allegheny were left without
water earlier this month after a pipeline broke and spilled 75,000
gallons of mixed fuel.
Emil Svetahor, spokesman for the state Fish Commission, said he
expected ''some damage to the fish'' in Buffalo Creek, a stocked
trout stream.
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Associated Press Writer
CRAIGSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - A train carrying a caustic chemical and up
to 210,000 gallons of crude oil derailed and exploded, fouling an
Allegheny River tributary and forcing at least 700 people from their
homes as Earth Day waned.
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By TARA BRADLEY-STECK
Associated Press Writer
CRAIGSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - A train carrying a caustic chemical and
crude oil derailed and exploded, spewing about 100,000 gallons of oil
into an Allegheny River tributary and forcing hundreds of people to
evacuate.
Twenty-nine cars in a 97-car Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad freight
train jumped the tracks in a steep ravine along Buffalo Creek late
Sunday, John H. Bell, the railway's vice president, said today.
Flames shooting several hundred feet high were seen 30 miles away.
In addition to the spilled oil, one tanker leaked sodium hydroxide
that sent a chemical cloud drifting toward Worthington, causing 200
people to be moved from their homes overnight. About 300 others were
told to be on standby for possible evacuation this morning, officials
said.
Bell said a dike collected most of the sodium hydroxide, a caustic
substance used to clean drains. It can cause oil to ignite, according
to a 1980 Department of Transportation hazardous materials handbook.
''What a weird time time for this to happen - on Earth Day,'' said
one resident, the Rev. Sharon Schwab. ''Maybe it will make people
begin to realize that we need to do things so this sort of thing
doesn't happen as often as it does now.'' She said she heard a
strange noise from the train ''like something was dragging or hitting
the tracks wrong'' before the accident.
The 12 oil tankers that derailed carried more than 300,000 gallons
of oil, Bell said. About 100,000 gallons ''give or take a few
thousand'' had leaked from four ruptured cars, he said. The other
eight oil tankers derailed but didn't rupture.
Firefighters had the fire under control ''to a point'' when
officials decided to let the oil burn away, said Bob Walker, the
director of hazardous materials handling for Armstrong County's
emergency services office.
''There's product in Buffalo Creek, but it's dark and the crude is
black,'' Betsy Mallison, a spokeswoman for the state Department of
Environmental Resources, said early today. ''We're focusing on making
sure areas are diked and boomed to keep most of the product out of
the creek.''
''It's so hot and volatile and it's difficult for firemen to get in
there and get a close look,'' said Betsy Mallison, spokeswoman for
the state Department of Environmental Resources.
Buffalo Creek flows into the Allegheny River 10 to 15 miles
downstream. Communities along the Allegheny were told they might have
to close their drinking water intake valves.
Dead fish were starting to rise to the surface in a two-mile stretch
of Buffalo Creek, said Emil Svetahor, spokesman for the state Fish
Commission.
Three firefighters suffered chemical burns, but their injuries were
not serious, said Ms. Mallison. A mobile home was damaged.
''There was an instant when that one fireball went up that I thought
it was coming right on us because you could feel the heat,'' said one
evacuee, Rose Davis, 46, who lives in a trailer park near West
Franklin Township. ''It lit our yard up like daylight. You could hear
the roaring of the fire.''
The cause of the derailment was under investigation. The two train
operators, who weren't injured, were undergoing drug and alcohol
tests under the Punxsatawney-based company's policy, Bell said.
The train derailed as Earth Day festivities wound down 45 miles away
at Pittsburgh's Point State Park, where an estimated 40,000
celebrated the environmental awareness day.
Tens of thousands of people along the Allegheny were left without
water earlier this month after a pipeline broke and spilled 75,000
gallons of mixed fuel.
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cleanup effort under way, and to clarify that 100,000 gallons of oil
leaked, but only small amount went into creek.
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By TARA BRADLEY-STECK
Associated Press Writer
CRAIGSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - A train carrying a caustic chemical and
crude oil derailed and exploded, spewing about 100,000 gallons of oil
and releasing a chemical cloud that forced 200 people to evacuate.
Twenty-nine cars in a 97-car Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad freight
train jumped the tracks in a steep ravine along Buffalo Creek late
Sunday, John H. Bell, the railway's vice president, said today.
At the fire's peak, flames shooting several hundred feet high could
be seen 30 miles away. At midmorning, the fire was still burning at
but was under control, authorities said.
Bell said only a small amount of the spilled oil leaked into Buffalo
Creek, a tributary of the Allegheny River, and that it didn't appear
to be a threat to drinking water.
In addition to the oil, one tanker leaked sodium hydroxide that sent
a chemical cloud drifting toward Worthington, causing 200 people to
be moved from their homes overnight. All but 50 had returned by
midmorning, said Worthington Fire Chief Don Grafton.
He said about 300 people were told to be on stan-by for possible
evacuation this morning but that the danger posed by the cloud
appeared to be easing.
A dike collected most of the sodium hydroxide, a caustic substance
used to clean drains, Bell said. It can cause oil to ignite,
according to a 1980 Department of Transportation hazardous materials
handbook.
At late morning, crews were using hoses to suck oil and sodium
hydroxide from the ground.
''What a weird time time for this to happen - on Earth Day,'' said
one resident, the Rev. Sharon Schwab. ''Maybe it will make people
begin to realize that we need to do things so this sort of thing
doesn't happen as often as it does now.'' She said she heard a
strange noise from the train ''like something was dragging or hitting
the tracks wrong'' before the accident.
The 12 oil tankers that derailed carried more than 300,000 gallons
of oil, Bell said. About 100,000 gallons ''give or take a few
thousand'' had leaked from four ruptured cars, he said. The other
eight oil tankers derailed but didn't rupture.
Except for the tanker carrying the sodium hydroxide, the other train
cars carried miscellaneous freight.
Firefighters had, 7th graf
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a065 0530 23 Apr 90
PM-Wall Street Protest,0116
Police Arrest Wall St. Environmentalist Protesters
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NEW YORK (AP) - Post-Earth Day demonstrators protesting corporate
environmental policies blocked traffic and overturned garbage
dumpsters along Wall Street this morning, and 26 people were
arrested, police said.
The protest planned by ''Earth Day Wall Street Action,'' a coalition
of groups, drew more than 400 people, said a police spokesman, Sgt.
Nick Vreeland.
The coalition had said they hoped to shut down Wall Street for a day
to call attention to ''corporate abuse'' of the environment. The
protest snarled traffic in the area during the morning rush hour.
Twenty-six protesters were arrested on citations of disorderly
conduct, Vreeland said.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of Post-Earth Day demonstrators protesting
corporate environmental policies blocked traffic and overturned trash
bins along Wall Street this morning, police said.
About 125 protesters were arrested by midmorning and charged with
disorderly conduct, said Detective Joseph McConville, a police
spokesman.
The protest was organized by Earth Day Wall Street Action, which
described itself as a coalition of 60 environmental organizations in
the United States and Canada. It said it wanted to focus attention on
''institutions responsible for much of the ecological devastation
which is destroying the planet.''
Employees of the New York Stock Exchange had to enter the building
from side streets because of police barricades. Trading began on
schedule at 9:30 a.m.
''Except for getting up a little early, it's a pretty normal day,''
said Richard Torrenzano, the exchange's senior vice president.
Wall Street executives emerging from subway entrances en route to
their offices were confronted by demonstrators chanting, ''Work for
our planet. Get a real job.''
A brokerage employee, Tony Concepcion, said, ''It's stupid. We have
nothing to do with what corporations do. I agree with what they want,
but this is just securities trading.''
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By JUDIE GLAVE
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of Post-Earth Day demonstrators protesting
corporate environmental policies blocked traffic and overturned trash
bins along Wall Street this morning, but trading started up normally,
authorities said.
More than 150 protesters were arrested by late morning, said police
Sgt. Diane Kubler. Five police officers and one civilian were
slightly injured, she said.
The protest was organized by Earth Day Wall Street Action, which
described itself as a coalition of 60 environmental organizations in
the United States and Canada. It said it wanted to focus attention on
''institutions responsible for much of the ecological devastation
which is destroying the planet.''
''The corporate people are responsible for lending the money for
much of the destruction,'' said demonstrator Ron DeChristoforo,
citing disappearing forests as an example. ''All these projects have
to come to a halt.''
A continent away, 100 environmentalists held a demonstration outside
the San Francisco office of the Pacific Stock Exchange. However, the
traffic was not blocked and the stock exchange reported business as
usual, with no interruptions or problems connected to the
demonstration.
In New York, as many as 700 demonstrators blocked traffic and
overturned trash bins before police arrived in numbers to contain the
demonstration, said police spokesman Ralph St. Just.
Officers closed one section of Wall Street to everyone but people
showing work identification, and trading began on schedule at 9:30
a.m.
''Except for getting up a little early, it's a pretty normal day,''
said Richard Torrenzano, the exchange's senior vice president.
As for the purpose of the protest, he said: ''We're all concerned
about these issues in our society. But we want to make sure the
exchange is open for investors throughout the world.''
A brokerage employee, Tony Concepcion, called the demonstration
''stupid. We have nothing to do with what corporations do. I agree
with what they want, but this is just securities trading.''
Kathy Heinz of the National Toxics Campaign said the protest was
intended to ''get a message to the folks who invest in companies who
don't respect their workers or the planet and get them to divest.''
Heinz, 38, of Litchfield, Maine, said she believes the death of one
of her children and illness of another was caused by her living near
a superfund dump site.
One of the arrested demonstrators was accused of assaulting a police
officer and 154 others were charged with disorderly conduct, Kubler
said.
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By JUDIE GLAVE
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of Post-Earth Day demonstrators protesting
corporate environmental policies blocked traffic and overturned trash
bins along Wall Street this morning, but trading started up normally,
authorities said.
More than 170 protesters were arrested by early afternoon, said
police Sgt. Peter Berry. Five police officers and one civilian were
slightly injured, he said.
The protest was organized by Earth Day Wall Street Action, which
described itself as a coalition of 60 environmental organizations in
the United States and Canada. It said it wanted to focus attention on
''institutions responsible for much of the ecological devastation
which is destroying the planet.''
''The corporate people are responsible for lending the money for
much of the destruction,'' said demonstrator Ron DeChristoforo,
citing disappearing forests as an example. ''All these projects have
to come to a halt.''
A continent away, 100 environmentalists held a demonstration outside
the San Francisco office of the Pacific Stock Exchange. However, the
traffic was not blocked and the stock exchange reported business as
usual, with no interruptions or problems connected to the
demonstration.
In New York, as many as 700 demonstrators blocked traffic and
overturned trash bins before police arrived in numbers to contain the
demonstration, said police spokesman Ralph St. Just.
Officers closed one secion of Wall Street to everyone but people
showing work identification, and trading began on schedule at 9:30
a.m.
''Except for getting up a little early, it's a pretty normal day,''
said Richard Torrenzano, the exchange's senior vice president.
As for the purpose of the protest, he said: ''We're all concerned
about these issues in our society. But we want to make sure the
exchange is open for investors throughout the world.''
A brokerage employee, Tony Concepcion, called the demonstration
''stupid. We have nothing to do with what corporations do. I agree
with what they want, but this is just securities trading.''
Kathy Hinds of the National Toxics Campaign said the protest was
intended to ''get a message to the folks who$nve t in companies who
don'o' their workers or the planet and get them to divest.''
Hinds, 38, of Litchf
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of one
of her children and illness of anor was caused by her living near
a superfunoi
dttl,nstrators was accused of assaulting a police
officer and 172 others were charged with disorderly conduct, Berry
said.
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By JUDIE GLAVE
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of Post-Earth Day demonstrators blocked
traffic and overturned trash bins along Wall Street this morning, but
trading started up normally, authorities said.
More than 170 protesters were arrested and six people including five
police officers were slightly injured, said police Sgt. Peter Berry.
At the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco, 49 people were
arrested during a simultaneous demonstration of 300 to 500 protesters
that turned violent when some broke windows at Bank of America, threw
golf balls, rocks and eggs at police and overturned newsstands.
Employees at some of the large corporations around the Pacific Stock
Exchange were delayed getting to work as the demonstrators moved from
one company headquarters to another. But as in New York, stock
trading got under way normally, authorities said.
Earth Day Wall Street Action, the group sponsoring the New York
protest, said it was intended to spotlight ''institutions responsible
for much of the ecological devastation which is destroying the
planet.''
''The corporate people are responsible for lending the money for
much of the destruction,'' said demonstrator Ron DeChristoforo,
citing disappearing forests as an example. ''All these projects have
to come to a halt.''
A spokesman for the San Francisco demonstrators, Daniel Finkenthal,
said their purpose was to give the public an alternative to the
corporate-sponsored views of environmental action that surrounded
Earth Day. Finkenthal, 23, predicted there would be an increase in
environmental demonstrations and more violence in coming months and
years.
In New York, ...
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Police Arrest Wall St. Environmentalist Protesters
With PM-Earth Day, Bjt
NEW YORK (AP) - Post-Earth Day demonstrators protesting corporate
environmental policies blocked traffic and overturned garbage
dumpsters along Wall Street this morning, and 26 people were
arrested, police said.
The protest planned by ''Earth Day Wall Street Action,'' a coalition
of groups, drew more than 400 people, said a police spokesman, Sgt.
Nick Vreeland.
The coalition had said they hoped to shut down Wall Street for a day
to call attention to ''corporate abuse'' of the environment. The
protest snarled traffic in the area during the morning rush hour.
Twenty-six protesters were arrested on citations of disorderly
conduct, Vreeland said.
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Environmental Protesters Snarl Wall Street
Eds: New thruoughout to UPDATE number of arrests, Stock Exchange
trading beginning without incident, details. No pickup.
LaserPhoto Staffing
With PM-Earth Day, Bjt
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of Post-Earth Day demonstrators protesting
corporate environmental policies blocked traffic and overturned trash
bins along Wall Street this morning, police said.
About 125 protesters were arrested by midmorning and charged with
disorderly conduct, said Detective Joseph McConville, a police
spokesman.
The protest was organized by Earth Day Wall Street Action, which
described itself as a coalition of 60 environmental organizations in
the United States and Canada. It said it wanted to focus attention on
''institutions responsible for much of the ecological devastation
which is destroying the planet.''
Employees of the New York Stock Exchange had to enter the building
from side streets because of police barricades. Trading began on
schedule at 9:30 a.m.
''Except for getting up a little early, it's a pretty normal day,''
said Richard Torrenzano, the exchange's senior vice president.
Wall Street executives emerging from subway entrances en route to
their offices were confronted by demonstrators chanting, ''Work for
our planet. Get a real job.''
A brokerage employee, Tony Concepcion, said, ''It's stupid. We have
nothing to do with what corporations do. I agree with what they want,
but this is just securities trading.''
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Environmental Protesters Snarl Wall Street, But Trading Starts On
Schedule
Eds: UPDATES throughout with new arrest total, new crowd estimate;
quotes, second demonstration in San Francisco, other detail. No
pickup. ADDS byline.
LaserPhoto NY27
With PM-Earth Day Rdp, Bjt
By JUDIE GLAVE
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of Post-Earth Day demonstrators protesting
corporate environmental policies blocked traffic and overturned trash
bins along Wall Street this morning, but trading started up normally,
authorities said.
More than 150 protesters were arrested by late morning, said police
Sgt. Diane Kubler. Five police officers and one civilian were
slightly injured, she said.
The protest was organized by Earth Day Wall Street Action, which
described itself as a coalition of 60 environmental organizations in
the United States and Canada. It said it wanted to focus attention on
''institutions responsible for much of the ecological devastation
which is destroying the planet.''
''The corporate people are responsible for lending the money for
much of the destruction,'' said demonstrator Ron DeChristoforo,
citing disappearing forests as an example. ''All these projects have
to come to a halt.''
A continent away, 100 environmentalists held a demonstration outside
the San Francisco office of the Pacific Stock Exchange. However, the
traffic was not blocked and the stock exchange reported business as
usual, with no interruptions or problems connected to the
demonstration.
In New York, as many as 700 demonstrators blocked traffic and
overturned trash bins before police arrived in numbers to contain the
demonstration, said police spokesman Ralph St. Just.
Officers closed one section of Wall Street to everyone but people
showing work identification, and trading began on schedule at 9:30
a.m.
''Except for getting up a little early, it's a pretty normal day,''
said Richard Torrenzano, the exchange's senior vice president.
As for the purpose of the protest, he said: ''We're all concerned
about these issues in our society. But we want to make sure the
exchange is open for investors throughout the world.''
A brokerage employee, Tony Concepcion, called the demonstration
''stupid. We have nothing to do with what corporations do. I agree
with what they want, but this is just securities trading.''
Kathy Heinz of the National Toxics Campaign said the protest was
intended to ''get a message to the folks who invest in companies who
don't respect their workers or the planet and get them to divest.''
Heinz, 38, of Litchfield, Maine, said she believes the death of one
of her children and illness of another was caused by her living near
a superfund dump site.
One of the arrested demonstrators was accused of assaulting a police
officer and 154 others were charged with disorderly conduct, Kubler
said.
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11-12th grafs, bgng 'Kathy Heinz...', to CORRECT spelling of Hinds
sted Heinz.
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LaserPhoto NY27
By JUDIE GLAVE
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of Post-Earth Day demonstrators protesting
corporate environmental policies blocked traffic and overturned trash
bins along Wall Street this morning, but trading started up normally,
authorities said.
More than 170 protesters were arrested by early afternoon, said
police Sgt. Peter Berry. Five police officers and one civilian were
slightly injured, he said.
The protest was organized by Earth Day Wall Street Action, which
described itself as a coalition of 60 environmental organizations in
the United States and Canada. It said it wanted to focus attention on
''institutions responsible for much of the ecological devastation
which is destroying the planet.''
''The corporate people are responsible for lending the money for
much of the destruction,'' said demonstrator Ron DeChristoforo,
citing disappearing forests as an example. ''All these projects have
to come to a halt.''
A continent away, 100 environmentalists held a demonstration outside
the San Francisco office of the Pacific Stock Exchange. However, the
traffic was not blocked and the stock exchange reported business as
usual, with no interruptions or problems connected to the
demonstration.
In New York, as many as 700 demonstrators blocked traffic and
overturned trash bins before police arrived in numbers to contain the
demonstration, said police spokesman Ralph St. Just.
Officers closed one secion of Wall Street to everyone but people
showing work identification, and trading began on schedule at 9:30
a.m.
''Except for getting up a little early, it's a pretty normal day,''
said Richard Torrenzano, the exchange's senior vice president.
As for the purpose of the protest, he said: ''We're all concerned
about these issues in our society. But we want to make sure the
exchange is open for investors throughout the world.''
A brokerage employee, Tony Concepcion, called the demonstration
''stupid. We have nothing to do with what corporations do. I agree
with what they want, but this is just securities trading.''
Kathy Hinds of the National Toxics Campaign said the protest was
intended to ''get a message to the folks who$nve t in companies who
don'o' their workers or the planet and get them to divest.''
Hinds, 38, of Litchf
3ld, Maine, said she believey
of one
of her children and illness of anor was caused by her living near
a superfunoi
dttl,nstrators was accused of assaulting a police
officer and 172 others were charged with disorderly conduct, Berry
said.
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LaserPhoto NY27
By JUDIE GLAVE
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of Post-Earth Day demonstrators blocked
traffic and overturned trash bins along Wall Street this morning, but
trading started up normally, authorities said.
More than 170 protesters were arrested and six people including five
police officers were slightly injured, said police Sgt. Peter Berry.
At the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco, 49 people were
arrested during a simultaneous demonstration of 300 to 500 protesters
that turned violent when some broke windows at Bank of America, threw
golf balls, rocks and eggs at police and overturned newsstands.
Employees at some of the large corporations around the Pacific Stock
Exchange were delayed getting to work as the demonstrators moved from
one company headquarters to another. But as in New York, stock
trading got under way normally, authorities said.
Earth Day Wall Street Action, the group sponsoring the New York
protest, said it was intended to spotlight ''institutions responsible
for much of the ecological devastation which is destroying the
planet.''
''The corporate people are responsible for lending the money for
much of the destruction,'' said demonstrator Ron DeChristoforo,
citing disappearing forests as an example. ''All these projects have
to come to a halt.''
A spokesman for the San Francisco demonstrators, Daniel Finkenthal,
said their purpose was to give the public an alternative to the
corporate-sponsored views of environmental action that surrounded
Earth Day. Finkenthal, 23, predicted there would be an increase in
environmental demonstrations and more violence in coming months and
years.
In New York, ...
AP-NY-04-23-90 1449EDT
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a065 0530 23 Apr 90
PM-Wall Street Protest,0116
Police Arrest Wall St. Environmentalist Protesters
With PM-Earth Day, Bjt
NEW YORK (AP) - Post-Earth Day demonstrators protesting corporate
environmental policies blocked traffic and overturned garbage
dumpsters along Wall Street this morning, and 26 people were
arrested, police said.
The protest planned by ''Earth Day Wall Street Action,'' a coalition
of groups, drew more than 400 people, said a police spokesman, Sgt.
Nick Vreeland.
The coalition had said they hoped to shut down Wall Street for a day
to call attention to ''corporate abuse'' of the environment. The
protest snarled traffic in the area during the morning rush hour.
Twenty-six protesters were arrested on citations of disorderly
conduct, Vreeland said.
AP-NY-04-23-90 0827EDT
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a079 0739 23 Apr 90
PM-Wall Street Protest, 1st Ld-Writethru, a065,0229
Environmental Protesters Snarl Wall Street
Eds: New thruoughout to UPDATE number of arrests, Stock Exchange
trading beginning without incident, details. No pickup.
LaserPhoto Staffing
With PM-Earth Day, Bjt
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of Post-Earth Day demonstrators protesting
corporate environmental policies blocked traffic and overturned trash
bins along Wall Street this morning, police said.
About 125 protesters were arrested by midmorning and charged with
disorderly conduct, said Detective Joseph McConville, a police
spokesman.
The protest was organized by Earth Day Wall Street Action, which
described itself as a coalition of 60 environmental organizations in
the United States and Canada. It said it wanted to focus attention on
''institutions responsible for much of the ecological devastation
which is destroying the planet.''
Employees of the New York Stock Exchange had to enter the building
from side streets because of police barricades. Trading began on
schedule at 9:30 a.m.
''Except for getting up a little early, it's a pretty normal day,''
said Richard Torrenzano, the exchange's senior vice president.
Wall Street executives emerging from subway entrances en route to
their offices were confronted by demonstrators chanting, ''Work for
our planet. Get a real job.''
A brokerage employee, Tony Concepcion, said, ''It's stupid. We have
nothing to do with what corporations do. I agree with what they want,
but this is just securities trading.''
AP-NY-04-23-90 1034EDT
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a200 0920 23 Apr 90
PM-Wall Street Protest, 2nd Ld - Writethru, a079,0458
Environmental Protesters Snarl Wall Street, But Trading Starts On
Schedule
Eds: UPDATES throughout with new arrest total, new crowd estimate;
quotes, second demonstration in San Francisco, other detail. No
pickup. ADDS byline.
LaserPhoto NY27
With PM-Earth Day Rdp, Bjt
By JUDIE GLAVE
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of Post-Earth Day demonstrators protesting
corporate environmental policies blocked traffic and overturned trash
bins along Wall Street this morning, but trading started up normally,
authorities said.
More than 150 protesters were arrested by late morning, said police
Sgt. Diane Kubler. Five police officers and one civilian were
slightly injured, she said.
The protest was organized by Earth Day Wall Street Action, which
described itself as a coalition of 60 environmental organizations in
the United States and Canada. It said it wanted to focus attention on
''institutions responsible for much of the ecological devastation
which is destroying the planet.''
''The corporate people are responsible for lending the money for
much of the destruction,'' said demonstrator Ron DeChristoforo,
citing disappearing forests as an example. ''All these projects have
to come to a halt.''
A continent away, 100 environmentalists held a demonstration outside
the San Francisco office of the Pacific Stock Exchange. However, the
traffic was not blocked and the stock exchange reported business as
usual, with no interruptions or problems connected to the
demonstration.
In New York, as many as 700 demonstrators blocked traffic and
overturned trash bins before police arrived in numbers to contain the
demonstration, said police spokesman Ralph St. Just.
Officers closed one section of Wall Street to everyone but people
showing work identification, and trading began on schedule at 9:30
a.m.
''Except for getting up a little early, it's a pretty normal day,''
said Richard Torrenzano, the exchange's senior vice president.
As for the purpose of the protest, he said: ''We're all concerned
about these issues in our society. But we want to make sure the
exchange is open for investors throughout the world.''
A brokerage employee, Tony Concepcion, called the demonstration
''stupid. We have nothing to do with what corporations do. I agree
with what they want, but this is just securities trading.''
Kathy Heinz of the National Toxics Campaign said the protest was
intended to ''get a message to the folks who invest in companies who
don't respect their workers or the planet and get them to divest.''
Heinz, 38, of Litchfield, Maine, said she believes the death of one
of her children and illness of another was caused by her living near
a superfund dump site.
One of the arrested demonstrators was accused of assaulting a police
officer and 154 others were charged with disorderly conduct, Kubler
said.
AP-NY-04-23-90 1212EDT
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Environmental Protesters Snarl Wall Street, But Trading Starts On
Schedule
Eds: SUBS 2nd graf and last graf to UPDATE number of arrests; SUBS
11-12th grafs, bgng 'Kathy Heinz...', to CORRECT spelling of Hinds
sted Heinz.
With PM-Earth Day Rdp, Bjt
LaserPhoto NY27
By JUDIE GLAVE
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of Post-Earth Day demonstrators protesting
corporate environmental policies blocked traffic and overturned trash
bins along Wall Street this morning, but trading started up normally,
authorities said.
More than 170 protesters were arrested by early afternoon, said
police Sgt. Peter Berry. Five police officers and one civilian were
slightly injured, he said.
The protest was organized by Earth Day Wall Street Action, which
described itself as a coalition of 60 environmental organizations in
the United States and Canada. It said it wanted to focus attention on
''institutions responsible for much of the ecological devastation
which is destroying the planet.''
''The corporate people are responsible for lending the money for
much of the destruction,'' said demonstrator Ron DeChristoforo,
citing disappearing forests as an example. ''All these projects have
to come to a halt.''
A continent away, 100 environmentalists held a demonstration outside
the San Francisco office of the Pacific Stock Exchange. However, the
traffic was not blocked and the stock exchange reported business as
usual, with no interruptions or problems connected to the
demonstration.
In New York, as many as 700 demonstrators blocked traffic and
overturned trash bins before police arrived in numbers to contain the
demonstration, said police spokesman Ralph St. Just.
Officers closed one secion of Wall Street to everyone but people
showing work identification, and trading began on schedule at 9:30
a.m.
''Except for getting up a little early, it's a pretty normal day,''
said Richard Torrenzano, the exchange's senior vice president.
As for the purpose of the protest, he said: ''We're all concerned
about these issues in our society. But we want to make sure the
exchange is open for investors throughout the world.''
A brokerage employee, Tony Concepcion, called the demonstration
''stupid. We have nothing to do with what corporations do. I agree
with what they want, but this is just securities trading.''
Kathy Hinds of the National Toxics Campaign said the protest was
intended to ''get a message to the folks who$nve t in companies who
don'o' their workers or the planet and get them to divest.''
Hinds, 38, of Litchf
3ld, Maine, said she believey
of one
of her children and illness of anor was caused by her living near
a superfunoi
dttl,nstrators was accused of assaulting a police
officer and 172 others were charged with disorderly conduct, Berry
said.
AP-NY-04-23-90 1406EDT
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a222 1155 23 Apr 90
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Environmental Protesters Snarl Wall Street, But Trading Starts On
Schedule
Eds: LEADS with 7 grafs to UPDATE with arrests in San Francisco.
With PM-Earth Day Rdp, Bjt
LaserPhoto NY27
By JUDIE GLAVE
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of Post-Earth Day demonstrators blocked
traffic and overturned trash bins along Wall Street this morning, but
trading started up normally, authorities said.
More than 170 protesters were arrested and six people including five
police officers were slightly injured, said police Sgt. Peter Berry.
At the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco, 49 people were
arrested during a simultaneous demonstration of 300 to 500 protesters
that turned violent when some broke windows at Bank of America, threw
golf balls, rocks and eggs at police and overturned newsstands.
Employees at some of the large corporations around the Pacific Stock
Exchange were delayed getting to work as the demonstrators moved from
one company headquarters to another. But as in New York, stock
trading got under way normally, authorities said.
Earth Day Wall Street Action, the group sponsoring the New York
protest, said it was intended to spotlight ''institutions responsible
for much of the ecological devastation which is destroying the
planet.''
''The corporate people are responsible for lending the money for
much of the destruction,'' said demonstrator Ron DeChristoforo,
citing disappearing forests as an example. ''All these projects have
to come to a halt.''
A spokesman for the San Francisco demonstrators, Daniel Finkenthal,
said their purpose was to give the public an alternative to the
corporate-sponsored views of environmental action that surrounded
Earth Day. Finkenthal, 23, predicted there would be an increase in
environmental demonstrations and more violence in coming months and
years.
In New York, ...
AP-NY-04-23-90 1449EDT
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a065 0530 23 Apr 90
PM-Wall Street Protest,0116
Police Arrest Wall St. Environmentalist Protesters
With PM-Earth Day, Bjt
NEW YORK (AP) - Post-Earth Day demonstrators protesting corporate
environmental policies blocked traffic and overturned garbage
dumpsters along Wall Street this morning, and 26 people were
arrested, police said.
The protest planned by ''Earth Day Wall Street Action,'' a coalition
of groups, drew more than 400 people, said a police spokesman, Sgt.
Nick Vreeland.
The coalition had said they hoped to shut down Wall Street for a day
to call attention to ''corporate abuse'' of the environment. The
protest snarled traffic in the area during the morning rush hour.
Twenty-six protesters were arrested on citations of disorderly
conduct, Vreeland said.
AP-NY-04-23-90 0827EDT
- - - - - -
a079 0739 23 Apr 90
PM-Wall Street Protest, 1st Ld-Writethru, a065,0229
Environmental Protesters Snarl Wall Street
Eds: New thruoughout to UPDATE number of arrests, Stock Exchange
trading beginning without incident, details. No pickup.
LaserPhoto Staffing
With PM-Earth Day, Bjt
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of Post-Earth Day demonstrators protesting
corporate environmental policies blocked traffic and overturned trash
bins along Wall Street this morning, police said.
About 125 protesters were arrested by midmorning and charged with
disorderly conduct, said Detective Joseph McConville, a police
spokesman.
The protest was organized by Earth Day Wall Street Action, which
described itself as a coalition of 60 environmental organizations in
the United States and Canada. It said it wanted to focus attention on
''institutions responsible for much of the ecological devastation
which is destroying the planet.''
Employees of the New York Stock Exchange had to enter the building
from side streets because of police barricades. Trading began on
schedule at 9:30 a.m.
''Except for getting up a little early, it's a pretty normal day,''
said Richard Torrenzano, the exchange's senior vice president.
Wall Street executives emerging from subway entrances en route to
their offices were confronted by demonstrators chanting, ''Work for
our planet. Get a real job.''
A brokerage employee, Tony Concepcion, said, ''It's stupid. We have
nothing to do with what corporations do. I agree with what they want,
but this is just securities trading.''
AP-NY-04-23-90 1034EDT
- - - - - -
a200 0920 23 Apr 90
PM-Wall Street Protest, 2nd Ld - Writethru, a079,0458
Environmental Protesters Snarl Wall Street, But Trading Starts On
Schedule
Eds: UPDATES throughout with new arrest total, new crowd estimate;
quotes, second demonstration in San Francisco, other detail. No
pickup. ADDS byline.
LaserPhoto NY27
With PM-Earth Day Rdp, Bjt
By JUDIE GLAVE
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of Post-Earth Day demonstrators protesting
corporate environmental policies blocked traffic and overturned trash
bins along Wall Street this morning, but trading started up normally,
authorities said.
More than 150 protesters were arrested by late morning, said police
Sgt. Diane Kubler. Five police officers and one civilian were
slightly injured, she said.
The protest was organized by Earth Day Wall Street Action, which
described itself as a coalition of 60 environmental organizations in
the United States and Canada. It said it wanted to focus attention on
''institutions responsible for much of the ecological devastation
which is destroying the planet.''
''The corporate people are responsible for lending the money for
much of the destruction,'' said demonstrator Ron DeChristoforo,
citing disappearing forests as an example. ''All these projects have
to come to a halt.''
A continent away, 100 environmentalists held a demonstration outside
the San Francisco office of the Pacific Stock Exchange. However, the
traffic was not blocked and the stock exchange reported business as
usual, with no interruptions or problems connected to the
demonstration.
In New York, as many as 700 demonstrators blocked traffic and
overturned trash bins before police arrived in numbers to contain the
demonstration, said police spokesman Ralph St. Just.
Officers closed one section of Wall Street to everyone but people
showing work identification, and trading began on schedule at 9:30
a.m.
''Except for getting up a little early, it's a pretty normal day,''
said Richard Torrenzano, the exchange's senior vice president.
As for the purpose of the protest, he said: ''We're all concerned
about these issues in our society. But we want to make sure the
exchange is open for investors throughout the world.''
A brokerage employee, Tony Concepcion, called the demonstration
''stupid. We have nothing to do with what corporations do. I agree
with what they want, but this is just securities trading.''
Kathy Heinz of the National Toxics Campaign said the protest was
intended to ''get a message to the folks who invest in companies who
don't respect their workers or the planet and get them to divest.''
Heinz, 38, of Litchfield, Maine, said she believes the death of one
of her children and illness of another was caused by her living near
a superfund dump site.
One of the arrested demonstrators was accused of assaulting a police
officer and 154 others were charged with disorderly conduct, Kubler
said.
AP-NY-04-23-90 1212EDT
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a217 1115 23 Apr 90
PM-Wall Street Protest, 3rd Ld - Writethru, a200,0461
Environmental Protesters Snarl Wall Street, But Trading Starts On
Schedule
Eds: SUBS 2nd graf and last graf to UPDATE number of arrests; SUBS
11-12th grafs, bgng 'Kathy Heinz...', to CORRECT spelling of Hinds
sted Heinz.
With PM-Earth Day Rdp, Bjt
LaserPhoto NY27
By JUDIE GLAVE
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of Post-Earth Day demonstrators protesting
corporate environmental policies blocked traffic and overturned trash
bins along Wall Street this morning, but trading started up normally,
authorities said.
More than 170 protesters were arrested by early afternoon, said
police Sgt. Peter Berry. Five police officers and one civilian were
slightly injured, he said.
The protest was organized by Earth Day Wall Street Action, which
described itself as a coalition of 60 environmental organizations in
the United States and Canada. It said it wanted to focus attention on
''institutions responsible for much of the ecological devastation
which is destroying the planet.''
''The corporate people are responsible for lending the money for
much of the destruction,'' said demonstrator Ron DeChristoforo,
citing disappearing forests as an example. ''All these projects have
to come to a halt.''
A continent away, 100 environmentalists held a demonstration outside
the San Francisco office of the Pacific Stock Exchange. However, the
traffic was not blocked and the stock exchange reported business as
usual, with no interruptions or problems connected to the
demonstration.
In New York, as many as 700 demonstrators blocked traffic and
overturned trash bins before police arrived in numbers to contain the
demonstration, said police spokesman Ralph St. Just.
Officers closed one secion of Wall Street to everyone but people
showing work identification, and trading began on schedule at 9:30
a.m.
''Except for getting up a little early, it's a pretty normal day,''
said Richard Torrenzano, the exchange's senior vice president.
As for the purpose of the protest, he said: ''We're all concerned
about these issues in our society. But we want to make sure the
exchange is open for investors throughout the world.''
A brokerage employee, Tony Concepcion, called the demonstration
''stupid. We have nothing to do with what corporations do. I agree
with what they want, but this is just securities trading.''
Kathy Hinds of the National Toxics Campaign said the protest was
intended to ''get a message to the folks who$nve t in companies who
don'o' their workers or the planet and get them to divest.''
Hinds, 38, of Litchf
3ld, Maine, said she believey
of one
of her children and illness of anor was caused by her living near
a superfunoi
dttl,nstrators was accused of assaulting a police
officer and 172 others were charged with disorderly conduct, Berry
said.
AP-NY-04-23-90 1406EDT
- - - - - -
a222 1155 23 Apr 90
PM-Wall Street Protest, 4th Ld, a217,0294
Environmental Protesters Snarl Wall Street, But Trading Starts On
Schedule
Eds: LEADS with 7 grafs to UPDATE with arrests in San Francisco.
With PM-Earth Day Rdp, Bjt
LaserPhoto NY27
By JUDIE GLAVE
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of Post-Earth Day demonstrators blocked
traffic and overturned trash bins along Wall Street this morning, but
trading started up normally, authorities said.
More than 170 protesters were arrested and six people including five
police officers were slightly injured, said police Sgt. Peter Berry.
At the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco, 49 people were
arrested during a simultaneous demonstration of 300 to 500 protesters
that turned violent when some broke windows at Bank of America, threw
golf balls, rocks and eggs at police and overturned newsstands.
Employees at some of the large corporations around the Pacific Stock
Exchange were delayed getting to work as the demonstrators moved from
one company headquarters to another. But as in New York, stock
trading got under way normally, authorities said.
Earth Day Wall Street Action, the group sponsoring the New York
protest, said it was intended to spotlight ''institutions responsible
for much of the ecological devastation which is destroying the
planet.''
''The corporate people are responsible for lending the money for
much of the destruction,'' said demonstrator Ron DeChristoforo,
citing disappearing forests as an example. ''All these projects have
to come to a halt.''
A spokesman for the San Francisco demonstrators, Daniel Finkenthal,
said their purpose was to give the public an alternative to the
corporate-sponsored views of environmental action that surrounded
Earth Day. Finkenthal, 23, predicted there would be an increase in
environmental demonstrations and more violence in coming months and
years.
In New York, ...
AP-NY-04-23-90 1449EDT
***************
a065 0530 23 Apr 90
PM-Wall Street Protest,0116
Police Arrest Wall St. Environmentalist Protesters
With PM-Earth Day, Bjt
NEW YORK (AP) - Post-Earth Day demonstrators protesting corporate
environmental policies blocked traffic and overturned garbage
dumpsters along Wall Street this morning, and 26 people were
arrested, police said.
The protest planned by ''Earth Day Wall Street Action,'' a coalition
of groups, drew more than 400 people, said a police spokesman, Sgt.
Nick Vreeland.
The coalition had said they hoped to shut down Wall Street for a day
to call attention to ''corporate abuse'' of the environment. The
protest snarled traffic in the area during the morning rush hour.
Twenty-six protesters were arrested on citations of disorderly
conduct, Vreeland said.
AP-NY-04-23-90 0827EDT
- - - - - -
a079 0739 23 Apr 90
PM-Wall Street Protest, 1st Ld-Writethru, a065,0229
Environmental Protesters Snarl Wall Street
Eds: New thruoughout to UPDATE number of arrests, Stock Exchange
trading beginning without incident, details. No pickup.
LaserPhoto Staffing
With PM-Earth Day, Bjt
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of Post-Earth Day demonstrators protesting
corporate environmental policies blocked traffic and overturned trash
bins along Wall Street this morning, police said.
About 125 protesters were arrested by midmorning and charged with
disorderly conduct, said Detective Joseph McConville, a police
spokesman.
The protest was organized by Earth Day Wall Street Action, which
described itself as a coalition of 60 environmental organizations in
the United States and Canada. It said it wanted to focus attention on
''institutions responsible for much of the ecological devastation
which is destroying the planet.''
Employees of the New York Stock Exchange had to enter the building
from side streets because of police barricades. Trading began on
schedule at 9:30 a.m.
''Except for getting up a little early, it's a pretty normal day,''
said Richard Torrenzano, the exchange's senior vice president.
Wall Street executives emerging from subway entrances en route to
their offices were confronted by demonstrators chanting, ''Work for
our planet. Get a real job.''
A brokerage employee, Tony Concepcion, said, ''It's stupid. We have
nothing to do with what corporations do. I agree with what they want,
but this is just securities trading.''
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By JUDIE GLAVE
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of Post-Earth Day demonstrators protesting
corporate environmental policies blocked traffic and overturned trash
bins along Wall Street this morning, but trading started up normally,
authorities said.
More than 150 protesters were arrested by late morning, said police
Sgt. Diane Kubler. Five police officers and one civilian were
slightly injured, she said.
The protest was organized by Earth Day Wall Street Action, which
described itself as a coalition of 60 environmental organizations in
the United States and Canada. It said it wanted to focus attention on
''institutions responsible for much of the ecological devastation
which is destroying the planet.''
''The corporate people are responsible for lending the money for
much of the destruction,'' said demonstrator Ron DeChristoforo,
citing disappearing forests as an example. ''All these projects have
to come to a halt.''
A continent away, 100 environmentalists held a demonstration outside
the San Francisco office of the Pacific Stock Exchange. However, the
traffic was not blocked and the stock exchange reported business as
usual, with no interruptions or problems connected to the
demonstration.
In New York, as many as 700 demonstrators blocked traffic and
overturned trash bins before police arrived in numbers to contain the
demonstration, said police spokesman Ralph St. Just.
Officers closed one section of Wall Street to everyone but people
showing work identification, and trading began on schedule at 9:30
a.m.
''Except for getting up a little early, it's a pretty normal day,''
said Richard Torrenzano, the exchange's senior vice president.
As for the purpose of the protest, he said: ''We're all concerned
about these issues in our society. But we want to make sure the
exchange is open for investors throughout the world.''
A brokerage employee, Tony Concepcion, called the demonstration
''stupid. We have nothing to do with what corporations do. I agree
with what they want, but this is just securities trading.''
Kathy Heinz of the National Toxics Campaign said the protest was
intended to ''get a message to the folks who invest in companies who
don't respect their workers or the planet and get them to divest.''
Heinz, 38, of Litchfield, Maine, said she believes the death of one
of her children and illness of another was caused by her living near
a superfund dump site.
One of the arrested demonstrators was accused of assaulting a police
officer and 154 others were charged with disorderly conduct, Kubler
said.
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By JUDIE GLAVE
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of Post-Earth Day demonstrators protesting
corporate environmental policies blocked traffic and overturned trash
bins along Wall Street this morning, but trading started up normally,
authorities said.
More than 170 protesters were arrested by early afternoon, said
police Sgt. Peter Berry. Five police officers and one civilian were
slightly injured, he said.
The protest was organized by Earth Day Wall Street Action, which
described itself as a coalition of 60 environmental organizations in
the United States and Canada. It said it wanted to focus attention on
''institutions responsible for much of the ecological devastation
which is destroying the planet.''
''The corporate people are responsible for lending the money for
much of the destruction,'' said demonstrator Ron DeChristoforo,
citing disappearing forests as an example. ''All these projects have
to come to a halt.''
A continent away, 100 environmentalists held a demonstration outside
the San Francisco office of the Pacific Stock Exchange. However, the
traffic was not blocked and the stock exchange reported business as
usual, with no interruptions or problems connected to the
demonstration.
In New York, as many as 700 demonstrators blocked traffic and
overturned trash bins before police arrived in numbers to contain the
demonstration, said police spokesman Ralph St. Just.
Officers closed one secion of Wall Street to everyone but people
showing work identification, and trading began on schedule at 9:30
a.m.
''Except for getting up a little early, it's a pretty normal day,''
said Richard Torrenzano, the exchange's senior vice president.
As for the purpose of the protest, he said: ''We're all concerned
about these issues in our society. But we want to make sure the
exchange is open for investors throughout the world.''
A brokerage employee, Tony Concepcion, called the demonstration
''stupid. We have nothing to do with what corporations do. I agree
with what they want, but this is just securities trading.''
Kathy Hinds of the National Toxics Campaign said the protest was
intended to ''get a message to the folks who$nve t in companies who
don'o' their workers or the planet and get them to divest.''
Hinds, 38, of Litchf
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of one
of her children and illness of anor was caused by her living near
a superfunoi
dttl,nstrators was accused of assaulting a police
officer and 172 others were charged with disorderly conduct, Berry
said.
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By JUDIE GLAVE
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of Post-Earth Day demonstrators blocked
traffic and overturned trash bins along Wall Street this morning, but
trading started up normally, authorities said.
More than 170 protesters were arrested and six people including five
police officers were slightly injured, said police Sgt. Peter Berry.
At the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco, 49 people were
arrested during a simultaneous demonstration of 300 to 500 protesters
that turned violent when some broke windows at Bank of America, threw
golf balls, rocks and eggs at police and overturned newsstands.
Employees at some of the large corporations around the Pacific Stock
Exchange were delayed getting to work as the demonstrators moved from
one company headquarters to another. But as in New York, stock
trading got under way normally, authorities said.
Earth Day Wall Street Action, the group sponsoring the New York
protest, said it was intended to spotlight ''institutions responsible
for much of the ecological devastation which is destroying the
planet.''
''The corporate people are responsible for lending the money for
much of the destruction,'' said demonstrator Ron DeChristoforo,
citing disappearing forests as an example. ''All these projects have
to come to a halt.''
A spokesman for the San Francisco demonstrators, Daniel Finkenthal,
said their purpose was to give the public an alternative to the
corporate-sponsored views of environmental action that surrounded
Earth Day. Finkenthal, 23, predicted there would be an increase in
environmental demonstrations and more violence in coming months and
years.
In New York, ...
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Hundreds of environmentalists demonstrated Monday in the financial
districts of New York and San Francisco, where post-Earth Day
demonstrators shattered windows at the Bank of America. Authorities
said 249 people were arrested.
Also in California, hand-delivered messages claimed responsibility
Monday for vandalism that cut power to some 92,000 Pacific Gas &
Electric customers in Santa Cruz and Watsonville.
In New York, police arrested about 185 of an estimated 700
demonstrators.
''The major corporations have committed a lot of crimes against
nature,'' said Marc Chernoff, 30, a member of New York's Coalition
for a Nuclear Free Harbor. ''It's long overdue to place the blame
where it directly belongs. If the products that pollute were not made
available, people would not buy them.''
Trade on the New York Stock Exchange went on as scheduled and none
of the protesters got inside. ''Except for getting up a little early,
it's a pretty normal day,'' said the exchange's senior vice
president, Richard Torrenzano.
At the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco, 49 people were
arrested during a demonstration by 300 to 500 protesters that turned
violent when some broke windows at Bank of America, threw golf balls,
rocks and eggs at police, and overturned newsstands.
The exchange also opened on schedule although some employees were
delayed.
Police closed off two blocks of Wall Street to traffic and all
pedestrians except those working there. Traffic elsewhere was
disrupted during the morning and afternoon when protesters walked
through lower Manhattan streets.
The protest was organized by Earth Day Wall Street Action, which
described itself as a coalition of 60 environmental organizations in
the United States and Canada. It said it wanted to focus attention on
''institutions responsible for much of the ecological devastation
which is destroying the planet.''
''I don't know why they're protesting against Wall Street,'' said
James F. Dean, 24, an auditor with J.P. Morgan. ''I don't think
anyone is taking this seriously besides them.''
''I think it's great that these guys in suits are stopping to hear
us,'' said Debbie Augustine, 34, of Loudon, N.H., a member of the
anti-nuclear power Clamshell Alliance.
A spokesman for the San Francisco demonstrators, Daniel Finkenthal
of the Earth Day Action Coalition, said the purpose of the protest
there was to give the public an alternative to the
corporate-sponsored views of environmental action that preceded Earth
Day.
''Yesterday these corporations came into our community and spent a
lot of money on a media coup to try to convince the American public
that environmental protection and reform was high on the corporate
agenda, but it's the lowest priority,'' Finkenthal said. ''In fact,
they're spending more money on Earth Day promotion than they are on
actual corporate reform and the environment.''
The group that claimed responsibility for the two California outages
called itself Earth Night Action Group and said the target was
Pacific Gas & Electric, a ''corporate earth rapist.'' Residents of
Santa Cruz and Watsonville were affected by the outages Sunday and
early Monday, caused by damage to power PG&E poles.
A young male caller to The Associated Press telephoned a few minutes
after delivery of the message to ask if it had been received. Similar
messages went to Bay City News Service and the San Francisco
Examiner. The caller refused to give his name or his telephone
number.
Elsewhere, the day after Earth Day was the day to clean up the trash
left by the crowds who gathered to celebrate a cleaner Earth.
In Baton Rouge, La., the grounds of the old state capitol and the
Centroplex auditorium were strewn with trash and it took an
eight-person city crew and a few volunteers three hours and about 65
overflowing trash bins to clean up.
''You're not going to change people's actions overnight,'' said
local Earth Day Chairman Paul Davidson. ''I'd like to think it's
cleaner than at past festivals, but I don't know.''
New York City was better off, even though an estimated 750,000 to 1
million people gathered in Central Park for music and speeches.
Before the celebration, the Parks Department put out 250 55-gallon
trash drums and 20 15-gallon recycling bins.
''We estimate that 90 percent of all refuse from the concert was
either put into the drums or recycling bins or was placed very
carefully right next to them on the ground when the receptacles
became too full,'' said Parks Department spokeswoman Abigail Meisel.
By midday Monday, workers had carted away 1 ton of newspapers for
recycling; 3.3 tons of metal and glass for recycling; and 150 tons of
other refuse, she said.
The crowd on the Mall in Washington, D.C., was smaller, more than
125,000 people, and they left only 6 to 7 tons of trash, said Earle
Kittleman, spokesman for the National Park Service. That compares
with 35 tons left by 400,000 people last July 4.
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Eat Your Veggies (Only), Save the Environment?
By MIKE FEINSILBER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - So you thought you did your part on Earth Day by
picking up litter? Now the Physicians Committee for Responsible
Medicine claims that if you are going to be an environmentalist (76
percent of Americans say they are), you've got to be a vegetarian
(that's 3 percent).
In other words, chew vegetables and eschew hot dogs to save the
world.
''If you're a meat eater, you are contributing to the destruction of
the environment, whether you know it or not,'' says Neal D. Bernard,
36, a 1980 graduate of George Washington University Medical School
and president of the 30,000-member committee. ''Clearly the best
thing you can do for the Earth is to not support animal
agriculture.''
He cited statistics to make his point:
- Producing enough food to feed a meat-eater requires 4,200 gallons
of water a day; to feed a vegetarian requires 300 gallons.
- Nearly 4 billion tons of topsoil are lost each year in the United
States, chiefly because of overgrazing by livestock and unsustainable
methods of growing feed.
- It takes 39 times more energy to produce beef than soybeans having
the same caloric value.
- Tropical rain forest is being cleared in Latin America to raise
cattle; a pound of hamburger represents 55 square feet of burned-off
forest.
Bernard's group observed Earth Day Sunday by passing out recipes for
such dishes as black beans and rice and vegetarian chili.
Bernard said most enviornmentalists don't ''catch the connection''
between eating meat and polluting the earth, but are ''pretty
sympathetic'' when it is spelled out.
''They picture a pastoral scene, a few cows grazing and a few
chickens clucking,'' he said. ''Little do they know that cows are
raised on enormous feedlots for a portion of their lives and you
can't keep the manure from running off into streams. By and large,
raising animals for food is a very unfriendly industry from an
environmental viewpoint.''
He says research suggests that methane gas - an inevitable byproduct
of cud-chewing animals - contributes to the greenhouse effect.
The 300,000-member National Cattlemen's Association disputed the
committee's assertions.
''The claim that to be a proper environmentalist you can't be a
meat-eater is a bunch of bull,'' said spokesperson Alisa Harrison.
''There is no current sound scientific evidence that shows that by
being a vegetarian you're going to be a better user of natural
resources.''
She said the committee's figures on water use, for example, could
only be true if all field corn were raised through irrigation, which
is not the case.
''We don't have a problem with people choosing to become
vegetarians,'' Ms. Harrison said. ''What we don't like is groups like
the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine spreading false
rumors about our use of natural resources. They're misleading and
they're not based on scientific evidence.''
''The range is in better condition today than it has been in a
hundred years, according to the Bureau of Land Management,'' Ms.
Harrison said. ''And for 80 percent of its life, a cow is raised on
roughage, which means range, and not on feed.''
Bernard said that in polls 76 percent of Amricans say they consider
themselves environmentalists and 3 percent list themselves as
vegetarians of one degree or another. Ms. Harrison said her
information was that vegetarians account for only 2 percent of the
public.
The latest government figures said that red meat consumption in the
United States dropped from 163 to 144 pounds per person between 1970
and 1987 while fresh vegetable consumption rose from 64 to 77 pounds.
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Can an Environmentalist Enjoy a Steak?
By MIKE FEINSILBER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Roughage has found its champion in the Physicians
Committee for Responsible Medicine, which argues you've got to eat
green food if you're going to be an environmentalist.
Eschew meat and save the Earth, says this outfit; eat salads and
preserve the rain forests.
''If you're a meat eater, you are contributing to the destruction of
the environment, whether you know it or not,'' says Neal D. Bernard,
president of the 30,000-member committee, which observed Earth Day by
passing out recipes for vegetarian chili and black beans and rice.
''Clearly the best thing you can do for the Earth is to not support
animal agriculture,'' says Bernard, 36, a 1980 graduate of the George
Washington University School of Medicine and the nephew of two
Illinois cattle raisers.
Mainstream environmentalists say he's gone too far and the National
Cattlemen's Association picks a bone with him.
''The claim that to be a proper environmentalist you can't be a
meat-eater is a bunch of bull,'' says cattlemen's spokeswoman Alisa
Harrison. ''There is no current sound scientific evidence that shows
that by being a vegetarian you're going to be a better user of
natural resources.''
''We don't have a problem with people choosing to become
vegetarians,'' Ms. Harrison says. ''What we don't like is groups like
the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine spreading false
rumors about our use of natural resources. They're misleading and
they're not based on scientific evidence.''
But Bernard cites statistics to make his case:
-It takes 39 times more energy to produce beef than soybeans having
the same caloric value.
-Producing enough food to feed a meat-eater requires 4,200 gallons
of water a day; to feed a vegetarian requires 300 gallons.
-Nearly 4 billion tons of topsoil are lost each year in the United
States, chiefly because of overgrazing by livestock and unsustainable
methods of growing feed.
-Tropical rain forest is being cleared in Latin America to raise
cattle; a pound of hamburger represents 55 square feet of burned-off
forest.
-Intensive cattle raising produces mountains of manure, a source of
methane gas, contributor to the greenhouse effect.
Most environmentalists don't catch the connection until he spells it
out for them, Bernard says.
''They picture a pastoral scene, a few cows grazing and a few
chickens clucking,'' he says. ''Little do they know that cows are
raised on enormous feedlots for a portion of their lives and you
can't keep the manure from running off into streams. By and large,
raising animals for food is a very unfriendly industry from an
environmental viewpoint.''
Other environmentalists have a ''yes, but'' response.
''It's like saying if you drive a car you can't be a good
environmentalist,'' said Michael Oppenheimer, senior scientist at the
Environmental Defense Fund, who sees a ''holier than thou'' mentality
at work in Bernard's scenario.
''If their point is to draw attention to the effects of meat-eating
and let people weigh that in deciding what to do environmentally,
that's understandable,'' Oppenheimer said. ''Meat-eating is one of
the things a lot of Americans do in excess and could cut down on and
do the environment a favor.''
Added Paul Allen, spokesman for the Natural Resources Defense
Council, ''You can be a vegetarian and still be a lousy
environmentalist if you're not active and involved.''
Allen said his group serves mostly fruit and cheese when it has a
reception, ''but that may be more a function of our not being able to
afford shrimp.''
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Arbor Day: Begun on Nebraska's Treeless Plain 118 Years Ago
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By TAD BARTIMUS
Associated Press Writer
NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. (AP) - Earth Day turned 20 this month in a
national frenzy of environmental excess, observed for weeks in song,
dance, meditation, exultation and exhortation. On its heels comes
Arbor Day.
Remember Arbor Day? A tradition started in 1872, it is one of the
oldest formalized conservation observances in the world. Its occasion
has resulted in the planting of millions of trees in this country
through 10 generations.
''God also said, 'I give you all plants that bear seed everywhere on
Earth, and every tree bearing fruit which yields seed; they shall be
yours for food.''' The author of Genesis knew the importance of
trees.
But not since the legend of Johnny Appleseed tagged after John
Chapman, a Massachusetts farmer who gave up the plow to sow orchards
from the Allegheny Mountains to Indiana after the Revolution, has
tree planting become so trendy.
''A tree planted today can enrich the lives of generations yet
unborn,'' President Bush said March 22 when he planted an eastern red
bud on the White House lawn. ''So let us plant the trees and nurture
them so that America will remain America the beautiful for
generations to come.''
Bush then mused that John Quincy Adams planted am elm on the White
House grounds in 1826. That Andrew Jackson's magnolia is among the
first to bloom each spring. That Woodrow Wilson's family picnicked
amid a grove of bay trees.
Franklin D. Roosevelt planted a little-leaf linden for Britain's
King George VI, and Herbert Hoover and Dwight Eisenhower, both
Midwesterners, left their arboreal legacy in oaks. Bush's
grandchildren now swing on Ike's sturdy tree.
Bush, who wants to plant a tree in every state, last April
personally turned the dirt for an offspring of the Adams elm on the
grounds of the North Dakota capitol in Bismarck.
But before the presidential spade tapped down the roots,
horticulturalists had to take emergency action against gypsy moth
larvae that had taken a free ride from Washington amid the 12-foot
sapling's branches.
The president's North Dakota tree is now thriving, according to S.F.
''Buckshot'' Hoffner, executive director of the North Dakota
Centennial Commission. The elms Bush planted in South Dakota and
Montana for those states' centennials last year are also budding.
On April 3, Bush planted another elm in Indianapolis and dedicated
it to the comatose Ryan White, the teen-ager with AIDS who died five
days later.
But Bush is not tackling his goal single-handedly. In his 1990
budget, he asked Congress for $175 million to plant 1 billion trees.
He has called on fellow citizens to plant 10 billion trees by the
beginning of the century. In time, he said, those trees would
annually absorb 13 million tons of carbon dioxide, 5 percent of
nationwide emissions.
Global ReLeaf, a project of the American Forestry Association, plans
to plant 100 million trees in the United States by 1992. A private
U.S.-Soviet venture plans to plant fruit trees along the coast of
Nicaragua.
Scrambling to get on the bandwagon, corporations are lining up to
help the U.S. Forest Service with its National Tree Planting
Initiative.
Texaco, for one, has pledged $1 million to nurture new woods being
planted this year by volunteers in Houston, New Orleans and Denver.
Scientists say woodlands restoration comes none too soon. Over
centuries, agriculture has done in nearly half of the Earth's
original forestland. Every year, tropical rain forests the size of
Tennessee disappear under the machete and the bulldozer. Experts say
football field-sized stands of trees are mowed down somewhere in the
world every 3 seconds.
Arbor Day, as with most great causes, began as one person's vision
and became an official holiday long before ecology was a buzz word.
In 1854, Julius Sterling Morton, son of a wealthy New York merchant,
left the cultured East with his bride of a few hours and headed for
the Nebraska Territory. They settled on a treeless 160-acre homestead
outside Nebraska City, 40 miles south of Omaha on the Missouri River.
Just 3 percent of the vast Territory was wooded. Fierce prairie
fires and roaming buffalo made trees so scarce they became landmarks,
such as ''travel two days until you get to the tree.'' It is claimed
that Lone Tree, Neb., was named for a single huge cottonwood on the
Ox Bow Trail.
Nebraska-born author Willa Cather in ''My Antonia'' described the
Czech farm girl, Antonia, showing a friend her farm north of Red
Cloud:
''As we walked through the apple orchard ... Antonia kept stopping
to tell me about one tree or another. 'I love them as if they were
people,' she said rubbing her hand over the bark. 'There wasn't a
tree here when we first came. We planted every one and used to carry
water for them, too ...' There was the deepest peace in that
orchard.''
J. Sterling Morton resolved to change the landscape. He and his
wife, Carrie, planted their own apple orchard. At the state fair in
1869, Morton and 22 other men organized the Nebraska State
Horticultural Society.
On Jan. 4, 1872, Morton presented his ''Fruit Address'' to his
colleagues, urging them to plant trees:
''Orchards are missionaries of culture and refinement. They make the
people among whom they grow a better and more thoughtful people. If
every farmer in Nebraska will ... cultivate an orchard and a flower
garden, together with a few forest trees, this will become mentally
and morally the best agricultural state, the grandest community of
producers in the American union.''
And it was done. The Nebraska Board of Agriculture declared April 10
that year to be Arbor Day. On that first observance, more than 1
million trees were planted in Nebraska. Astonishingly, as many as 100
million trees were planted annually in that prairie state from 1885
to 1890.
By 1900, Arbor Day was celebrated in every state and the idea had
spread overseas. As the tree-planting ritual became a fixture in the
American school year, Morton declared, ''Other holidays repose upon
the past; Arbor Day proposes for the future.''
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California's 'Big Green' Initiative Seen as Voter Puller
By RODNEY ANGOVE
Associated Press Writer
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Environmental advocates announced Thursday
they had collected 800,000 signatures favoring the state's ''Big
Green'' initiative, which would curtail pesticide use, offshore
drilling and timber cutting.
The all-Democratic leadership of the ''Big Green'' environmental
initiative intended for the November ballot predicted that it would
bring out voters like never before.
''Earth Day gave us just a hint of how deeply Californians care
about our environment. On election day we'll deliver the whole
message. Nothing can stop us from passing Big Green,'' John Van de
Kamp, the state attorney general and a Democratic candidate for
governor, told a Capitol news conference.
The news conference and ones in Los Angeles and San Francisco were
called to announce that 800,000 signatures had been collected in
favor of placing the initiative on the ballot. The measure needs
372,178 valid signatures; the signatures will be checked by the
secretary of state's office.
If ''Big Green'' wins approval it would go on the books as the
Environmental Protection Act of 1990.
The act proposes stringent controls on pesticide use, preservation
of ancient redwood stands, bans on clear cutting timber, blocks on
offshore drilling and the creation of an environmental czar to
oversee enforcement and implementation. It would appropriate $20
million to seek alternatives to pesticides.
Al Meyerhoff of the Natural Resources Defense Council called it
''the most sweeping measure ever put before the voters by
environmentalists anywhere in the country.'' He said it would serve
as a litmus test for political candidates, and ''send a message to
Congress.''
Two opposing ballot issues are being readied to challenge some of
the provisions of Big Green.
Under the aegis of Californians for Responsible Food Laws, or
CAREFUL, agribusiness interests are trying to get a less restrictive
pesticide measure on the ballot. And the timber industry is backing a
measure to cancel out the initiative's provisions to save trees.
Van de Kamp, whose staff wrote the measure with the help of
environmental groups, has touted it as evidence of his commitment to
environmental issues.
Big Green also has the support of Van de Kamp's rival in the June
Democratic primary for governor, former San Francisco Mayor Dianne
Feinstein, who endorsed it on Earth Day.
The GOP candidate for governor, Pete Wilson, hasn't taken a stand.
In addition, Big Green is sponsored by environmental groups
including the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council and
the National Toxic Campaign.
The proponents said they expect to spend $1 million to $3 million
campaigning.
Van de Kamp, in explaining support for the measure, said, ''Some
800,000 Californians have signed up to ban cancer-causing pesticides
from our food, to protect our coast from oil drilling and tanker
spills, to stop the dumping of sewage and industrial waste in the
ocean, to save our virgin redwood forests and to lead the fight
against global warming.''
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How the Fortune 500 Became Environmentalists
Eds: This substitutes for the regular column by Walter R. Mears,
vacationing.
By MIKE FEINSILBER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Some of it is hype, some of it is genuine
commitment and some is begrudging acceptance of reality. Whatever,
American corporations are becoming environmentalists, or at least
environmentally conscious.
This year's crop of glossy annual reports sent by corporations to
stockholders every spring is green with environmentalism. Firms are
eager to tell about their good citizenship on planet Earth.
Texaco brags that mussels taken from its offshore oil rigs are
served in the finest California restaurants.
Dow Chemical touts the environmental awards it has won.
Carolina Power & Light tells how conservation has saved 1.75 million
kilowatts.
Even the tiny Central Vermont Public Service Corp. wants
stockholders to know that it has invested in a power generating plant
that burns waste wood.
Not so long ago, business was hostile to environmentalism. It saw
the movement as an advocate of restrictions that would impede
operations, require big, non-revenue generating outlays, undermine
competitiveness.
Environmentalists were looked on in corporate boardrooms as ''pointy
headed liberals that really didn't know business,'' says Bruce Smart,
former Commerce Department official in the Reagan Administration.
''We had a lot of name-calling, a lot of rhetoric on both sides,''
says Alexander Trowbridge, former president of the National
Association of Manufacturers and former oil executive. But as it
turned out, he says, ''environmental improvement has been a corollary
to economic growth.''
Still, there's some grumbling.
Marco, Inc., in the business of producing coal and natural gas and
transporting natural gas, complains in its annual report, ''Each of
our business segments has the potential to be impacted adversely by
the environment issues being debated both in Washington, D.C. and in
states throughout the country ...''
''We believe that many of these issues are being addressed
politically rather than with a more deliberate approach based on a
sound, rational review of scientific data.''
And Inland Steel Industries, in its annual report, says a Democratic
clean air bill in the Senate would have imposed standards
''unscientific and unattainable for steel and other affected
industries.''
But they are exceptions. Most companies which make a potentially
polluting product or use a polluting process, have become
environmentally prideful.
''Mussels are especially sensitive to pollutants, yet they thrive on
the legs of Texaco's Habitat platform off the coast of California,''
says Texaco's annual report.
''When a marine firm discovered that the water around the platform
exceeds stronger state water quality requirements for growing
mussels, it arranged with Texaco to gather the mussels from the
platform and sell them to gourmet restaurants from Los Angeles to San
Francisco,'' Texaco says.
Phelps Dodge Corp., which produces one billion tons of copper a
year, tells of plans to cover a 60-year-old pile of tailings with a
golf course.
''Simply complying with environmental regulations is not enough,''
the company says.
''Papermaking is a water-intensive process. It takes thousands of
gallons to make a ton of coated paperboard,'' says the Mead Corp. So
how much extra water will be pumped from the river for use in Mead's
new 1,000-ton-a-day coated board expansion in Alabama?
''None, thanks to the fact that water once used only for cooling
will be recycled and used in the manufacturing process.''
Dow Chemical tells one of its secrets: ''Dow gives plant managers a
direct incentive to reduce waste by charging each plant for all waste
management costs.''
Dow brags it has reduced its plants' air emissions by 85 percent
since 1974 and seeks to cut them another 50 percent in five years.
''Nearly 75 million pounds of polyethylene milk bottles became drain
pipes, lumber replacements and recycling containers in 1989.,'' says
Dow. ''Nearly all the scrap from Dow's plastic foam production is
recycled or sold rather than being disposed of in landfills.''
McDonald's Corp., which had been taking a public relations beating
because of all that greasy waste paper and polystyrene it generates,
fills its annual report with conservation messages.
Inside, McDonald's reprints a letter received from Dan Getty, 11:
''If we stop wasting resources, our land will be clean. If we don't
stop, we won't have anything left.''
Perhaps in response, McDonald's came up with a McSolution:
''McRecycle,'' a $100 million plan to buy high chairs, wastebaskets,
insulation from recycled materials and to use paper bags made from
recycled newspapers. Its first step was to ballyhoo the program in
full-page newspaper ads.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Mike Feinsilber has covered the news in Washington
for 22 years.
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