Environmental setback warnings amid energy crisis
Upper Midwest environmentalists warn energy shortages may trigger environmental setbacks. Leaders like Rick Thompson and Richard Thorpe fear relaxed air and water standards, while others urge lifestyle reforms and reduced urban sprawl as fuel shortages spur shifts in policy and behavior.
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Associated Press
Upper Midwest
Rick Thompson
Northern Environmental Council
Ashland
Wis
Thompson
Richard Thorpe
The
Sierra Club
Minnesota
Paul Toren
St. Paul
Izaak Walton League
Grant Merritt
State Pollution Control Agency
Jerry Leck
Minnesota Public Interest Research Group
Senators Vote On Campaign Financing Cloture Fails
The Senate failed to achieve the required two thirds for cloture on a bill combining public financing of presidential campaigns with extending the federal debt ceiling. Minnesota and Dakota senators split, Abourezk Burdick Humphrey Mondale voting for cloture, while Young voted against.
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Washington
Minnesota
Dakotas
Senate
Abourezk
Ds.d
Burdick
D-N.d
Humphrey
D-Minn
Mondale
McGovern
Young
R-N.d
No motive found in four Sioux Falls slayings
Rock Rapids Iowa AP Father of three men charged in the shotgun killings of four Sioux Falls teenagers says the brothers were good sons and offered no motive for the murders. Allen 29 David 24 and James 21 were captured in Sioux Falls after waiving extradition to Iowa. Authorities know of no motive for the slayings.
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Rock Rapids
Iowa
South Dakota
Lyle A. Fryer
Watertown
M.D
Fryers
Allen Fryer
David
James
Sioux Falls
Gitchie Manitou State Park
Allen
U.S
Wilmot
Roslyn
Fryer
Energy outlook warns petroleum reserves may run out after 2000
Dartmouth professors Gordon MacDonald and Dennis Meadows warned at a Minneapolis alumni meeting that U S petroleum reserves could be exhausted within 10 to 30 years unless energy use drops sharply. They criticized Nixon Administration and Congress for short term responses and warned transportation patterns cannot be sustained.
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Minneapolis, Minn
Dartmouth University
United States
Dartmouth
Minneapolis
Gordon J.F. MacDonald
Dennis Meadows
Nixon
Congress
MacDonald
Federal Council On Environmental Quality
U.S
Alaska
Meadows
Drugs at Stillwater Prison testimony on policy and violence
In Stillwater State Prison inmates and guards testified before Minnesota House committees about policy inconsistencies and rising violence. Guards cited training gaps and a need for clearer supervision while inmates argued outside groups aid rehabilitation. Warden McManus noted segregation for roughly 45 inmates is under consideration.
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Stillwater, Minn
Stillwater State Prison
Ronald Gleason
Gleason
Stillwater
San Quentin
William Kiley
Jack Mogelson
Teamsters Union
Martin Weinhold
Bruce McManus
Native hiker survives month alone in Sierra snow
David Heiller of Brownton Minnesota, a University of Minnesota junior, disappeared in November while hiking Yosemite Falls toward Snow Creek. After nearly a month of hunger and cold, aided by food rationing and hand writing a diary, he was found by three cross country skiers. Heiller weighed 160 pounds at discovery and remains hospitalized for observation of frostbite and infected blisters.
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Brownton
Minn
Heiller
University of Minnesota
Yosemite Falls
Snow Creek
Yosemite Valley
Yosemite
Fewer Forest Fires in Ontario Reported by DNR
The Department of Natural Resources said on Sept. 1 that since the start of the year 476 forest fires have destroyed 126000 acres in Ontario. By the same date last year 260000 acres burned in more than 1000 fires across the province.
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Toronto
Department of Natural Resources
Ontario
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Sherwin-Williams
St. NE
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Dennis Smith
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Nemitz’s
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Livingston
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Wilt Chamberlain
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