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...will accept all of Reagan's proposed reductions in social spending, but that the Administration can save $20.3 billion through "management initiatives," some of which seem exceedingly questionable. For example, the Reaganauts expect to raise $8.4 billion by accelerated leasing of offshore oil and gas lands, even though environmentalist objections have already forced Secretary of the Interior James Watt to pull back from his billion-acre leasing program...
...choice for the job. He is not one of those suspect postwar tycoons who have had their SS tattoos removed by a discreet plastic surgeon. He ran a liberal paper, has been a scholarly author (The Rhenish Farmhouse in the Nineteenth Century), and is a bird watcher and armchair environmentalist. So the profits and honors roll in, the guilty conscience thrives, and poor old Tolm gives up bicycle riding because he cannot go out without two carloads of guards and a surveillance helicopter...
...billion "superfund" to clean up abandoned toxic dump sites. She has also urged major retrenchments in the Clean Air Act; late last week she proposed a three-year delay and substantial weakening of impending carbon monoxide emission standards for heavy gasoline-fueled trucks. Mistrustful of the presumed environmentalist bias of career EPA employees, she has centralized control. Research scientists now cannot release findings until they have been approved as "appropriate" by four levels of the bureaucracy; public information programs, such as slide shows and computer software dealing with science issues, require seven levels of approval...
Watt, 43, has managed to keep the full backing of the White House on matters of substance, though not of style. In seeking to redress what he calls the "environmental extremist" bias of the past, he has alienated not only liberal environmentalist groups like the Sierra Club but such conservative organizations as the National Wildlife Federation and the National Audubon Society. Even the Los Angeles Times, which endorsed Reagan's candidacy and his pro-development policy, has called for Watt's resignation...
...anti-environmentalist group this week began soliciting signatures on campus for a petition urging Congress to ratify the Nuremberg Code, which states that genocide is a crime against humanity under international...