Government – Page 22

Matching environmental talk, economic reality

AS PRESIDENT-ELECT Clinton and Vice President-elect Gore look toward Jan. 20, they must confront the problem of reconciling their environmental rhetoric with economic reality. Much is promised: Al Gore’s environmental commitment is unprecedented for a vice president and adds to pent-up pressures to address environmental concerns. But this pressure comes during a flat economy and, […]

Quayle and Gore on the Environmental Fringes

John A. Baden

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Quayle and Gore on the Environmental Fringes

James Watt, Ronald Reagan’s first Secretary of the Interior, was an environmental paradox. To environmentalists, he personified an obsolete view of nature, a view seeing only commercial value in natural resources. But for the Greens, Watt was a useful icon of rapacious industrial exploitation. As such, he deserves much of the credit for the rise […]

John A. Baden

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Spare that Tree!

This year is the centennial of the National Forest System. Its custodian, the U.S. Forest Service, manages 191 million acres of national forest and rangeland. That’s equal to Texas and Louisiana combined. When founded the Forest Service was intended to be a model of good government in the old progressive model of benevolent despotism—rule by […]