Description: US Department of Interior to sell rights on Georges Bank for offshore oil and gas drilling, jeopardizing marine life and fishing industry. Mass. Secretary of Environmental Affairs James Hoyte, along with environmental activists, opposes it.
Description: Gloucester salt marshes and undeveloped land need stronger conservation protection than afforded by wetlands statute. Scenes of Gloucester water, boats, houses, open space.
Description: Greenpeace tries to deliver barrels of ash residue (which they consider hazardous waste) from Saugus RESCO incinerator to regional EPA office. Police scuffle at elevator in federal building.
Description: Greenpeace protesters picket Burger King because of their purchase of fish from Iceland, which kills whales and exports the meat to Japan.
Description: Michael Dukakis, James Hoyte, Paul Levy, Ray Flynn, Michael Deland mark official start of Boston Harbor cleanup. Dukakis shovels inaugural dirt at Deer Island groundbreaking and rides on bow of Metro Police boat.
Description: Lawsuit against state for failure to clean up harbor pollution is closed because of good faith plans to improve sewage treatment. MWRA. James Hoyte, Paul Levy, Michael Deland.
Description: Conservation Law Foundation urges preparedness for risk of oil spill in Boston Harbor from tanker traffic. Pilot boat. File of Liberian tanker Pluto in fog.