Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slowdown was started by Democratic Senator Gary Hart of Colorado, who wrote a letter to Budget Committee Chairman Edmund Muskie urging him to set up a task force to study both the economic and environmental impact of Carter's $141 billion energy program. It was too vast and too complicated, Hart argued, to be approved without extensive research. "We ought to understand what all this means," he said. Muskie agreed and took the argument to Senator Henry Jackson, who wanted an omnibus energy bill as soon as possible. Despite Jackson, the Hart-Muskie view prevailed, and Jackson...
This lack of understanding can be seen in the decision to pump billions of dollars into the development of synthetic fuels. As Colorado's Democratic Governor Dick Lamm put it: "For us in the West the implications are almost unfathomable. Colorado has 80% of the nation's developable shale, vast amounts of coal and a great deal of uranium. Now we are being subjected to a crash program...
...ambitions of new leaders sometimes sink into Realpolitik. To the environmentalists' delight, Dick Lamm, Colorado's newly elected Governor, proclaimed in 1975: "I am going to drive a silver stake through the heart of Interstate 470"?a road that was to be the final link of a circumferential highway around Denver...
...Gary Hart, 41, relishes the role of maverick. Says the Democratic Senator from Colorado: "It is difficult to put me in a category. I strike out on my own." In his first term, Hart is already an influential member of three key committees: armed forces, environment and budget. An independent on most issues, he strongly supports SALT II and favors tighter federal control over nuclear power plants. But he also favors less
Opposed by many of the state's educators, the Carey decision was a victory for student and parent groups backed by Ralph Nader, who has encouraged "truth in testing" campaigns in California, Colorado, Texas, Ohio and Massachusetts, as well as New York. Carey's move gave Nader his first signal victory, and last week Nader called the decision a "turning point in the national campaign to subject the testing industry to public scrutiny," adding, "ETS has been judging the worth of students for years. Now the students are getting a chance to judge the worth...