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...Saint Brown," as he is known by his opponents, became Australia's most notorious environmentalist. During the seven-year battle to save the river, he was robbed, shot at and set upon by thugs. The mailbox of his spartan weatherboard cottage was stuffed with animal entrails. But his soft-spoken message of peace and planetary conservation prevailed, and the dam was scuttled in 1983. Briefly jailed for barring the path of a bulldozer, Brown was elected to the Tasmanian parliament the day after his release -- one of five "green" M.P.s who hold the balance of power in Australia's smallest...
...finally terminated the project. Vargha, meanwhile, has emerged as a powerful voice of political reform. A founder of the Alliance of Free Democrats, now the leading opposition party, he was offered an official post within the group. But Vargha, 40, declined. Says he: "I am first and foremost an environmentalist...
...reference to one of the 1988 presidential race's most effective ads, Murphy lashed out at President Bush's credentials as an environmentalist...
...majority leader, George Mitchell of Maine. Starting during the reign of Ronald Reagan, who once professed to believe that some air pollution was caused by trees, Mitchell has tried to get a clean-air bill into law. After Bush claimed during his election campaign that he was a devoted environmentalist, Mitchell devised a strategy to hold the President to his rhetoric. First he waited for Bush to make his own proposals on pollution controls last July. Then he rammed a much tougher version through the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. When the White House predictably denounced the committee version...
...acquire land for environmental and recreational purposes; he also endorsed a plan to undo the work of the Army Corps of Engineers and restore much of the natural flow of South Florida's Kissimmee River. Maine Governor John McKernan, facing a challenge from Democrat Joe Brennan, a strong environmentalist, startled the audience at his state-of-the-state address last month by , proposing to breach the 3,500-kW Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River. That would allow free passage of Atlantic salmon, shad and other fish for the first time since...