The coastline is an important tourist attraction, as well as an environmentally fragile area.

Finally, the spill inspired an angry public to demand that the Administration calculate more carefully the risks of drilling in environmentally fragile areas.

Even if they do not, though, the environment will gain because pressures to tap environmentally fragile sources of new water would be relieved.

It was criticized as one-sided even by those who support its provision for drilling for oil in environmentally fragile areas.

Could some of these environmentally fragile areas be placed off limits without threatening energy needs?

The two cases being heard today, both out of Michigan, are challenges by developers who want to build on environmentally fragile lands.

Besides working to clear the beaches, officials also prepared to use floating booms to protect environmentally fragile areas.

"This required a lot of thinking; this is a very tight, environmentally fragile village."

But this new roadway would traverse some environmentally fragile areas and was opposed as a gateway to urban sprawl.

A program to encourage farmers not to develop environmentally fragile land was renewed, as were food stamp and nutrition programs.