Word: dugger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ronnie Dugger Austin...
...view of corporate interests. Says one Texas politician who has followed Connally closely: "The real danger in the milk fund case is the manipulation of Government policy to fit business interests, encouraging Nixon to raise milk support prices to extract political money." Says former Texas Observer Publisher Ronnie Dugger, a longtime Connally critic: "Corporate interests and Government interests? They're all the same to him." Another Texas political foe asks, "Can you imagine Connally's administration going after some big corporation that was behaving badly...
...Crimson editorial piece of February 10, "Power For the People," Celia Dugger contends that the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the federal utility that supplies energy to much of the southeastern United States, is becoming progressive. Dugger points out that the TVA has started to encourage the development of alternative energy sources, such as a small-scale solar and wood heating systems, and that this shift toward thinking small has been encouraged by the Carter Administration. But Dugger fails to tell the full story. The bulk of the TVA budget continues to go to large scale, ecologically destructive energy development, more...
...Celia Dugger replies...
...Dugger points out in her piece that TVA has improved its environmental record, citing its commitment to land reclamation. But the overall record is still abominable. TVA remains the single largest consumer in the U.S. of strip-mined coal, which it uses to feed its 12 fossil fuel power plants. These plants contaminate the air and water at a rate that places TVA, according to the Council on Economic Priorities, at the top of the 15 largest American utilities in air and water pollution. In 1975, TVA received an order to comply with the Clean Air Act, but the company...