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...NAFTA, which would create a market of 360 million consumers, still does not have a clear presidential imprint. The Clinton Administration, even at this late hour, has not advanced with clear, unswerving support for the accord. NAFTA's opponents are smelling blood, the kind that gushes from sacrificial victims on the altar of political expediency...
...recent ruling by Federal Court Judge Charles E. Richey, requiring that an environmental impact statement must be drafted before NAFTA can be presented to Congress for ratification, may prove to be a pyrrhic victory for the groups (Sierra Club, Friends Of The Earth and Ralph Nader's Public Citizen who filed the suit...
Mexico had, in anticipation of the economic benefits that NAFTA would provide, embarked on significant environmental policy adjustment. The failure to ratify the pact will not culminate in a reversal of progressive environmental policy but may well result in the delayed implementation of further reforms, both economic and environmental...
...primary concerns of the environmental group opposing NAFTA are transboundary pollution and the deteriorating resource base along the 2000 mile US-Mexico border, exacerbated by the proliferation of maquiladoras and their problems with air pollution and hazardous and toxic waste management...
...concerns of environmental opponents to NAFTA are far from uniform. Competing goals and agendas point to a rift which is growing appreciably. There are on one end of the spectrum the prophets of ecological apocalypse, opposed to any kind of further economic integration, and then there are at the other entrepreneurs, such as Anita Roddick of Body Shop fame, profiteering from gestural primitivism. The absence of a uniform vision underscores the inherent difficulty in establishing concrete solutions...