D2B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 15,1980
Environmental indicators steady
but group sees new threats
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
The “quality of life” in the
United States-as measured
by seven environmental
indicators - remained
virtually unchanged last
year as the nation wound up
a decade marked by the
enactment of many en
vironmental protection laws,
the National Wildlife
Federation reported in its
11th annual study of en
vironmental trends.
NWF found in its 1960
Environmental Quality
Index study that four of the
seven resources that go into
the index-wildlife, water,
soil, and forests-remamed
unchanged in quality over
the past year.
Another component of the
EQI-air quality-unproved
in 1979, while two others
minerals and living space
declined m quality. Last
year was the first time since
1970 that the majority of the
seven natural resources did
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not register a decline on the
EQI.
During 1979 there was
“progress on a number of
fronts,” from pollution
abatement and 'solar
research to wetlands
protection and wildlife
management,” explains the
EQI report, which is
published in the February
issue of National Wildlife
magazine.
But while many past gains
were consolidated, “at the
political level, en
vironmental programs and
priorities suffered setbacks
from which they may not
soon recover,” the report
concludes.
The EQI is an analysis of
the state of the nation’s
natural resources based on a
combination of objective
measurements and the
subjective judgments of the
NWF staff in consultation
with government experts
and academic researchers.
Five federal agencies-the
EQ SUMMARY
Bureau of Land
Management, the Council on
Environmental Quality, the
Fish and Wildlife Service,
the Forest Service, and the
Soil Conservation Service
now cooperate" with the
Federation in the collection
of resources data.
Summar ss of the 1980 EQI
reports on the seven
resources follow:
WILDLIFE
No Change. For the first
time in more than a decade,
the EQ trendline for wildlife
stopped going down in 1979.
This was the result of years
of hard work in wildlife
management, habitat
protection, and pollution
abatement. But con
servationists worry about
the future.
Little was done last year to
improve vast acreages of
badly abused rangeland in
the West, they said. And in
Congress, there was a fierce
backlash against all en
vironmental constraints on
development.
There were other ominous
conflicts between energy
and wildlife in 1979. While
Congress debated relaxing
air standards so more coal
can be burned, acid rain
containing pollutants from
industrial smokestacks and
car exhaust began showing
up in Wisconsin and
Michigan.
Last fall, the Interior
Department okayed oil
exploration on the Georges
Bank off Cape Cod, one of the
world’s most productive
fisheries, while U.S. crews
were mopping up a
monumental leak from an
offshore Mexican oil well.
MINERALS
Down. Of the seven
resources analyzed in the
EQI, minerals are perhaps
the easiest to squander and
the hardest to retrieve. This
underlines the seriousness of
the fact that in 1979, the U.S.
moved one year closer to the
end of the petroleum era
without a comprehensive
energy - conservation
program.
Instead of emphasizing
conservation. President
Carter proposed a massive
and expensive program to
develop “synthetic” fossil
fuels, to locate and produce
more domestic oil, and to
create an almost dictonal
“energy mobilization
board” that could bypass
many environmental
safeguards.
In the year of Three Mile
Island, gas lines, and
doubled fuel prices, all of the
energy news was not bad.
Energy efficiency m U.S.
homes and apartments in
creased and industrial use
decreased.
Improved auto mileage
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