Word: environmentalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would meet U.S. needs for more than 30 years. But then again, says USGS, the resources might be less than half that much. Lacking a better fix, energy planners cannot estimate how much of the nation's requirements might be filled, and how quickly, if they overrode environmentalist objections and opened all the fields to drilling. Similarly, until there are better figures on all oil and gas reserves, no one can say how much production might rise if prices were decontrolled...
McCall probably first earned his national reputation as an environmentalist, not a prankster. During his eight years in office, moderate Oregon banned throwaway bottles and flip-top cans, liberalized its abortion and contraception laws, and began a policy prohibiting development of the state's 300-mile coastline. McCall--and many other Oregonians--wanted to save the state from the anarchistic growth that California and other states had experienced in the preceeding years. The state tightened up environmental regulations--so much that some heavily-polluting factories had to be closed--and discouraged all but clean industries from settling there...
...AUBURN-FOLSOM PROJECT. The fight over the $1 billion scheme on California's American River provides a case study in the realities of water politics. Governor Jerry Brown, an ardent environmentalist, had campaigned for office as an opponent of new dams, but the severe drought, which has forced some of his Northern California constituents to haul water by the bucket, has changed Brown's mind. When Carter put Auburn-Folsom on his list, Brown came out in favor of the project, which is designed to irrigate 29,000 acres and provide supplemental water to 387,000 more. Brown...
...away the glowing image of the scientist as some kind of superman. Scientists now appear to be as fallible as the politicians with whom they increasingly consort. In Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political Arena, two academic scientists, Physics Teacher Joel Primack of the University of California and Environmentalist Frank von Hippel of Princeton, present case histories documenting the tendency of many scientists to "look the other way" when the Government wants to lie about technical matters. A scholarly polemic by Lewis Mumford, The Pentagon of Power, scathes not the scientists but their intimacy with governmental powers. The identification...
...wearing a lynx jacket, for which (as she chugs sturdily toward 72nd Street) she apologizes. Her environmentalist friends have scolded her, she says...