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Secretary of the Interior Cecil D. Andrus said yesterday evening reorganization of federal natural resource agencies is necessary if the United States is to achieve a balance between development and conservation.
About the most that consuming governments have so far been able to manage by way of concerted action was a voluntary conservation agreement worked out last week during a two-day conference of the 20-nation International Energy Agency in Paris. The nations agreed to cut overall oil consumption by...
All this waffling is immensely frustrating for Energy Secretary James Schlesinger. For the past two years he has urged conservation steps; Congressmen have done little more than nod politely. The present squeeze, Schlesinger argues, "is a warning, but the real danger is in the long run. We must take advantage...
Environmentalists too are worried about the unknown, particularly about the effect of heavily saline discharges into inland California waters. Recently, they forced a 15-mile rerouting of the proposed viaduct at an extra cost of $60 million. Says the Sierra Club's Peter Zars: "Our primary concern has been...
Preserving libraries, museums, and laboratories. The fund drive will incorporate the Fogg Museum's "mini-drive" currently underway, and will provide money for library upkeep. It also seems the Peabody Museum is slated to receive some money from the drive, after the recent controversy over the sale of a collection...