Vermont Seeks Federal Aid For Water Pollution Controls
Vermont Attorney General James Jeffords told a Senate subcommittee that the state has pushed strong pollution controls but needs more federal funds to avoid a competitive disadvantage. He urged uniform federal water standards and a nationwide permitting system for discharges, urging federal consultation with state agencies and opposition to per capita funding.
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Washington
UPI
Vermont
James Jeffords
Air and Water
Senate Public Works Committee
Jeffords
John Hansen
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Edmund Muskie
Dmaine
Proxmire
High Court To Rule In Abortion Case
The Supreme Court agreed to hear the constitutionality of the District of Columbia abortion law, scheduling fall arguments on the Justice Department appeal from Judge Gerhard Gesell’s 1969 ruling striking down the 69 year old statute. Dr Milan Vuitch’s indictment was dismissed, with advocates claiming abortion is a physician patient matter and laws discriminate against the poor.
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UPI
Supreme Court
District of Columbia
Justice Department
Gerhard A. Gesell
High Court
Gesell
Milan Vuitch
American Civil Liberties Union
ACLU
Hawaii
Colorado
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
New York
New Jersey
Youth Dies In Hoosick Area Crash Near North Petersburg
State police report a fatal crash in the Hoosick area as Burt, driving a car owned by his wife Loretta, swerved into the southbound lane and hit a pickup driven by Roland E. Bacon of Garden City Georgia. Bacon and a passenger Mona Thomson of Petersburg were hospitalized with serious and satisfactory conditions respectively. Burt was returning from a bowling banquet. Eight youths have died in Hoosick automobile crashes since last June, with several more teens injured in related incidents.
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New York
Center Brunswick
Burt
Loretta
Roland E. Bacon
Garden City
Bacon
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington
Town of
Mona M. Thomson
Petersburg
North Petersburg
BCI
B.B. Keating
Hoosick
Robert Ellis
Groveside
West Hoosick
Johnson Hill Road
North Hoosick
Gene Bellrose
Hackett
Cynthia Potter
River Street
Hoosick Falls
Albany Medical Center
Roscoe Austin
East Hoosick
Wayne C. Tracy
White Creek
Richard T
Inside Columnist on bugs and ecological warning
Gerald Raftery muses on the 80 percent animal life on earth focusing on bugs. An editorial reviews Dr Lamont Cole's ecological warning and its implications for policy and science. A Manchester social work professor urges professionals to move beyond coping in America’s poverty problem.
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Gerald Raftery
Bugs
Lamont Cole
Manchester
United States
Deerfield Valley Chamber Opposes Wilmington Bypass Plan
The Deerfield Valley Chamber of Commerce released a resolution opposing a Wilmington bypass and Route 100 reconstruction. It urges Gov. Davis to quash the project, arguing new roads will worsen traffic, harm business, and damage ecological and esthetic values. Hearings begin May 21 in Wilmington.
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Wilmington
Deerfield Valley
Massachusetts
Vermont
State
Ecologist Dr Cole Warns of Looming Environmental Disaster
Cornell ecologist Dr Lamont C. Cole spoke at Bennington College dedicating the Elizabeth Harrington Dickinson Science building. He warned entrenched policy, rapid growth, and pollution threaten the atmosphere and oceans, citing 500000 to 600000 chemicals released and pointing to nuclear waste as a grave future risk. The speech urged public demand and stronger legislation to curb environmental harm.
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Lamont C. Cole
Cornell University
Cole
Elizabeth Harrington Dickinson
Bennington College
New Science Center
Chamber of Commerce
Boston
Lamont Cole
Cornell
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Tom Cat
Keith
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Hoosick Area
Edith Beaumont
Dr. Cole
David Scribner
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U Thant
Food and Drug Administration
Ocean
Scribner
Robertson Ward
Fairleigh S. Dickinson
Rutherford, N.J
Dickinson
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