Word: environmentalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reuss who urged the U.S. to break the relationship between the dollar and gold that helped set the stage for devaluation of the dollar in 1971. He also proposed legislation in 1970 that gave the President standby authority to impose wage and price controls. Reuss is a convinced environmentalist. Four years ago, he seized on an 1899 act that prohibited the dumping of wastes into interstate waterways and put it to use in the antipollution movement...
...California environmentalist groups lost a bitter fight to stop construction of a dam on the Stanislaus River in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The 62-story-high structure was designed to prevent yearly flooding of the lower Stanislaus. Backers of the project cite other benefits like some 2.4 million acre-feet of irrigation water and enough nonpolluting hydroelectric power to supply a city of 200,000 people. The problem is that the dam will also destroy some nine miles of spectacular white water. An organization called Friends of the River, which was formed to fight the dam, persuasively argued that flood...
...Environmentalist Richard Lamm, a Democrat, unseated Republican Governor John Vanderhoof in Colorado by advocating tight conservation of the state's resources and resistance to federal use of Colorado's land for energy...
...high-powered thinker or speaker, Carey talks the language of New York City in a genial, gravelly voice. A traditional bread-and-butter liberal, he is taking cautious stands against taxes and busing and a moderate environmentalist position. He promises to block President Ford's surtax proposal from his post on the House Ways and Means Committee. An Irish Catholic widower with twelve children and no trace of limousine liberal snobbery, he is likely to win back much of the ethnic vote that has been deserting to the Republicans. He is aided in this effort by the Democratic candidate...
LAMM V. VANDERHOOF The environment is the main issue in Colorado, and it would be hard to find a more ardent environmentalist that Democrat Richard Lamm, 39. Minority whip in the state house of representatives, Lamm led the successful fight to keep the 1976 Winter Olympics out of Colorado, on the ground that they would affect thoustands of visitors who would threaten the environment. He sponsored a land-use bilt that lost by a single vote...