Description: PRESS CONFERENCE ABOUT CLEANING UP BOSTON HARBOR. Michael Deland
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/31/1985
Description: Environmental groups criticize John DeVillars for slow progress on toxic waste reduction. Greenpeace. Protester in ape costume offering police bananas.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/17/1989
Description: Large fish kill in Wareham ponds thought to be attributable to malathion spraying. State inspector collects dead fish in nets and plastic bag. Trout hatchery.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/28/1990
Description: Cambridge scientist N. Dak Sze researches depletion of earth's ozone layer, which has dire consequences for continuation of life on the planet. global warming length 2:42
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/08/1987
Description: Children celebrate Arbor Day on Common. John DeVillars proposes developers pay for tree-planting (+eventually water purification, land acquisition) to make up for pollution + reducing open space in Mass.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/28/1989
Description: In Quincy Bay, EPA finds flounder with cancerous tumors and lobsters with PCBs in their livers. Water life is contaminated by sewage pumped from Nut Island treatment plant. Men fishing from shore.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/17/1988
Description: Young children at Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm talk about endangered species and damage to the environment. Deer, bird, pig.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/16/1990
Description: Review of Michael Dukakis' policy on offshore oil drilling on Georges Bank. Press conference on tugboat to reiterate his opposition…and affirm his commitment to environmental issues. Gerry Studds
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/16/1988
Description: Gov. Michael Dukakis holds outdoor press conference with James Hoyte on offshore drilling on Georges Bank endangering fishing. Priscilla Chapman of Sierra Club. Daniel Greenbaum of Audubon Society. Frank Burns, John DeVillars in background. Dukakis stresses concern for environment. Fresh caught fish on ice in crates, thrown into plastic sorting bins for weighing on big scale. Close-up of fish face. Lumpers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/01/1984
Description: Rep. Gerry Studds and Douglas Foy of Conservation Law Foundation with Michael Dukakis at Fish Pier press conference on Georges Bank drilling. Dukakis will put up tough fight to prevent interference with the natural environment; opposes lease sales for offshore gas and oil drilling. Also comments on state budget versus revenue projections.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/16/1988