Some environmentalists, opposed to any limits on borrowing for land preservation, say they did not realize what would happen if the ballot question was rejected.

Federal and utility officials, and even some environmentalists opposed to nuclear power, say that establishing a centralized repository would be more efficient and probably safer.

Her love for the sweeping forest canopies and lush old-growth groves has taken her from child explorer to teenage protester to adult plaintiff in a seven-year legal battle between the law enforcement officials of rural Humboldt County and environmentalists opposed to logging the redwoods.

Today, federal authorities were combing both sites for clues, acting on what they described as strong indications that both fires had been set by a loosely knit group of radical environmentalists adamantly opposed to research on the genetic modification of trees.

Such revelations do not fit comfortably into today's politically charged debate over razing parts of the forests, with some environmentalists opposed to allowing any large-scale agriculture, like cattle ranching and soybean cultivation, to advance further into Amazonia.

But even environmentalists opposed to the Manhattan stadium idea say that using air quality laws to block it in court would be difficult.

These included members of street theater companies, church groups and antiwar organizations, as well as environmentalists and people opposed to the death penalty, globalization and other government policies.

A campaign by environmentalists opposed to the exploitation of oil shale reserves may also have been a factor.

The two have no connection except a political one; environmentalists opposed to drilling in the wildlife reserve have put the mileage standards forward as an alternative, making one a kind of hostage to the other.

It was sponsored by environmentalists opposed to a hydroelectric project that would flood land used by Cree Indians in northern Quebec.