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Article: PRESENT-DAY MARINE ISSUES RECALL MAGNUSON'S LEGACY.(News)(IN THE NORTHWEST)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- June 7, 2002
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Byline: JOEL CONNELLY P-I COLUMNIST
NOBODY MISTOOK WASHINGTON Sen. Warren Magnuson for an ecology buff back when dams graced his billboards, or when he told a conservationist witness at a hearing: "We can't all go live at Walden Pond. Even Walden only lived there two years."
Maggie didn't know Thoreau, but it turned out he did appreciate pristine waters.
In a famous stealth maneuver, 25 years ago, Maggie tacked a "little amendment" to a little-known environmental law (the Marine Mammal Protection Act) and banned oil supertankers from Puget Sound.
We pay tribute to pork barreling politicians in America. Anchorage named its airport ...