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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...cancer alley" -- the 120-km (75-mile) stretch of the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to New Orleans that is lined with 136 petrochemical plants and refineries -- have learned to endure choking fumes, stunted gardens, contaminated crayfish and abnormally high rates of cancer and other ills. But with help from Janice Dickerson, of the New Orleans-based Gulf Coast Tenants Organization, they are no longer suffering in silence...
...gravely threatened savannas. Some Brazilians are concerned that the new Secretary might be too inflexible and idealistic for the rough realities of government, but Lutzenberger, 63, calls himself a "possibilist." The Gaia Foundation, a private organization he set up, finances problem-solving environmental projects. Example: an effort to help poor settlers improve agricultural techniques so that they do not have to clear as much forest land to produce enough crops...
...religious community and organized labor. The event's disciplined chairman and mastermind, San Francisco lawyer Denis Hayes, hopes to saturate the public consciousness and create what he calls a "tilt point" in attitudes, refocusing the passions of the cold war on ecological issues. Hayes hopes that Earth Day will help make sound environmental behavior as accepted in daily life as wearing a seat belt. Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts believes Earth Day will help recruit an army of voters to hold slippery politicians truly accountable for environmental problems in coming elections...
Kenya countdown. The Evangelical Fellowship of Kenya will launch its campaign to plant 1.5 million trees with the help of churches and schools...
...officials say McGee has committed no crimes because he is not advocating "imminent lawless action." Indeed, the sidearm he packs in a leather holster is a slingshot. But Mayor John Norquist charges that McGee's firebrand behavior is "doing more to scare jobs away from his district" than to help it. "It's one thing to try to attract investment and capital," says Norquist. "It's another to use extortion...