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Regional officials are not the only ones covering up the problem. According to Rep. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.), EPA Assistant Administrator Thomas Jorling "more or less ordered the regional people to 'look the other way"' when they received complaints about chemical pollution. Hamstrung by a subsistence budget and reluctant to step on the sensitive toes of its regional offices, top administrators have quietly suspended all action on chemical dumps despite evidence that 90 per cent of the nation's 50,000 hazardous waste desposal sites are leaking. "Because of pressure from the White House to fight inflation," EPA branch chief...

Author: By Leonard H. Shen, | Title: The Politics of Pollution | 11/21/1979 | See Source »

...Presidency: Carter vetoed the bill in November (his first exercise of that power), but Clinch River ended up with $150 million for 1978 anyway, almost twice as much as had been voted, then vetoed. An override hadn't even been necessary. Breeder-backers Sens. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) and Howard Baker (D-Tenn.) easily subverted the veto--and got extra appropriations to boot--by securing a General Accounting Office (GAO) report saying Carter's termination of Clinch River was "substantially inconsistent" with the project's original long-term authorization. In other words, as Sen. James McClure (R-Idaho...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Breeder Politics | 5/5/1978 | See Source »

...Congressmen invited by the Institute are Les AuCoin (D-Ore.), David F. Emery (R-Me.), James J. Florio (D-N.J.), Harold Ford (D-Tenn.), Carroll Hubbard (D-Ky.), and Robert W. Kasten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTITUTE OF POLITICS | 12/6/1974 | See Source »

...panel (above), led by Senator Sam Ervin (D-N.C.) and (second from left) Howard Baker (D-Tenn.) (far left), has proceeded cautiously throughout the hearings. Ervin has displayed both puzzlement (upper left) and pleasure (left) at the testimony. Sometimes, the testimony has intrigued Ervin and bored Baker (bottom center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four More Years: Six Months Later | 6/13/1973 | See Source »

...average American just does not associate with civil disobedience," said former Senator Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) at an informal discussion with 20 people sponsored by the Harvard Young Republicans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gore Criticizes Civil Disruption Plans | 4/30/1971 | See Source »

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