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...long can environmentalism survive the heisse luft from industry lobbyists? Theresa Woody, a Miami-based representative of the Sierra Club, thinks that the movement isn't dying, just lazy; people thought environmental laws were established and permanent, and they weren't paying attention. She guesses Newt Gingrich will turn out to be the best membership raiser the green brigade has had since James Watt's alarming career as Interior Secretary. These days, she says, people like to see wading herons, but they really care about clean water in the aquifer when they understand that their own bodies need it every...
Norbert E. Samek Sierra Madre, California...
Fifteen hundred miles south, in the Sierra Negra, lies a poorer and more conservative Mexico. Here along the dry river beds suspicion of Uncle Sam remains pronounced. ``How did Mexico fall so quickly?'' asks Serafin Perez Nava, mayor of San JoseTetla (pop. 800). ``Under Salinas we thought we had prestige, but it washed away like a sand castle. Now they are mortgaging our country. What happens later if we can't pay our debts? Will the U.S. then ask for part of our territory?'' Carlos Garcia Moreno teaches 17 children in a one-room schoolhouse. His $70-a-week salary...
...since the reign of James Watt, Ronald Reagan's Interior Secretary, have environmentalists been so shaken. "This is James Watt times 10," says Brett Hulsey, the Sierra Club's Midwest representative. "These people want to turn our natural resources back to the robber barons...
...admits to being overzealous at times and points to corrective steps now in the works, such as changing the 11-day rule in the wetlands definition. But environmentalists contend that reform is not what's on Republicans' minds. Says Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope: "The agenda they have set is not to fix these laws but to weaken them...