Word: environmentalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then Nader joined with an environmentalist group, the Friends of the Earth, in a lawsuit that, if successful, could force the Atomic Energy Commission to shut down most of the nuclear power plants in the country and halt any further construction until a dispute over the safety of such plants can be resolved. The suit demands that nuclear plants be shut until the AEC can give verified assurances that back-up systems, designed to cool off an overheating reactor core if the primary system breaks down, will work reliably...
Herrnstein had responded to just such charges in an article published in the April issue of Commentary magazine. The article, entitled "On Challenging an Orthodoxy," attacks the "environmentalist doctrine that dominates both our education and our attitudes toward social policy," defends Herrnstein's controversial views on IQ and meritocracy, and describes with some distaste the reaction and tactics of his critics...
Herrnstein directs his first attack at the "environmentalist doctrine that dominates both our education and our attitudes toward social policy," and goes on to rebut his critics...
...view over the port (impressively clean) and the Royal Palace (depressingly severe). The reason was simple. The U.S. Population Institute served a delicious free lunch there: marinated river salmon with sweet mustard, herring in fresh cream, tiny meat balls, thick slices of rare roast beef. To ask an environmentalist to dine, however, is to ask for trouble. Dr. Samuel Epstein, the Cleveland toxicologist who first warned of the harmful effects of the detergent component nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), contended that the beef was full of cancer-causing aflatoxins. "Don't know why the Swedes...
...plants they say they must build to prevent future blackouts. The Duke Power Co., for example, recently complained that it had to get 67 different licenses and permits before it could start the Keowee-Toxaway project in South Carolina. Even when the bureaucracy seems willing to provide licenses, environmentalist groups have started suing to stop plant construction, particularly in densely settled areas of the Northeast, the upper Middle West and Southern California. The Sierra Club's Richard Lahn calls it "guerrilla theater...