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Despite these dire projections, the Panama Canal Commission has reacted coolly. Says David Baerg, the group's environmental and energy-control officer: "We are not in a crisis situation, where things have to be changed immediately." Heckadon disagrees. He has called for the formation of a body like the Tennessee...
There are some state-level models for the civilian component of a national- service plan, most notably the California Conservation Corps. Created in 1976, it currently enlists 2,200 young men and women in a twelve-month program that includes fighting floods and forest fires, maintaining parks and clearing streams...
"Requests to the government offices have indicated that [Massachusetts] is interested in energy conservation, not energy physics," Glashow said.
Operating quietly and unknown to most Americans, the conservancy has in the ! past three decades bought hundreds of similarly fragile environments. From its headquarters in Arlington, Va., it now oversees a 2.61 million-acre empire that includes more than 1,000 species of threatened plants and animals. "We have been...
In an interview with TIME, Gray suggested that one way of raising revenue might be to impose a "temporary" surcharge on foreign imports that would last no more than three years. Gray estimated that higher fees on imports could raise anywhere from $10 billion to $30 billion annually, depending on...