Report Advises Clinton on `Environmental Ethic'

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AS President-elect Clinton prepares for his two-day economic summit next week, a bipartisan commission - including top Clinton advisers - is calling for major government policy changes to inject an "environmental ethic" into virtually every aspect of the economy.

The recommendations, if followed, would transform many aspects of business and private life over the next five years. Among them: a dramatic increase in gasoline taxes and a new tax on carbon-producing fuels; elimination of government subsidies that encourage wasteful use of natural resources; a cabinet-level Department of the Environment with broader responsibilities and authority than the Environmental …