Word: conservationists
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...field this summer we will have a geologist, a metallurgist, a conservationist, [a] physical anthropologist [and a] botanist. There's a continual interaction during the time we are actually digging," says Stager. More intensive artifact and lab analysis are deferred to a laboratory in Jerusalem or the Semitic Museum at Harvard. which Stager directs, he says...
Legal business also flows from the environmental impact statements that are now necessary for virtually any major construction. Meanwhile, good old- fashioned conservationist causes, like saving trees and endangered animals, continue to spark hot legal disputes. Says Michael Anderson, an attorney for the Wilderness Society: "There has never been a time when legal action has been used more effectively than now." That may be good news for those seeking to put the law on the side of the environment. But it is even better news for those lawyers who are making big bucks from the booming trade...
Although the upsurge of prosecutions has naturally created a demand for top environmental defense attorneys, the biggest draw of all is corporate work. Gone are the days when environmental law was the lone province of conservationist lobby groups and government agencies. Today's environmental lawyer is more likely to wear a pinstripe suit and dispense advice across the company conference table. "The reason is simple," says Howard Learner of Business and Professional People for the Public Interest. "If you're in a real estate transaction, you want to know what's buried beneath the land and what...
...issues such as crime, abortion rights, education reform and no new taxes, Van de Kamp, 54, has a strong card in his identification with the Big Green. "The cleverest thing he's done," acknowledged a Feinstein adviser. Being against environmental causes in 1990, Van de Kamp told a conservationist audience in Sacramento, "is like being a communist in Eastern Europe...
...would point out that the root of the word conservative is the same as the root of the word conservationist," he adds...