Word: environmentalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aging men sat by a blazing fire, chatting easily. Getty, though suffering from Parkinson's disease and internal ailments, still can show flashes of the aggressiveness that built an oil empire. He speaks slowly and deliberately. Lindbergh is hale and well tanned. He looks his role-dedicated environmentalist and exponent of slow, carefully planned industrial growth...
...Environmentalist Barry Commoner is among many skeptics who demand a far-ranging congressional investigation to uncover the true state of the nation's oil supplies. Politicians are beginning to listen. Democratic Senator John Tunney of California says that he will press for an investigation into the size and availability of petroleum supplies when Congress reconvenes next week. At least four congressional committees already have scheduled hearings on energy troubles. A growing number of people argue that the Government must have precise company-by-company petroleum inventory figures if it is to manage the nation's energy resources effectively...
When blame is apportioned for the crisis, however, the Nixon Administration and the oil industry have plenty of company. Who gets the rest? Just about everybody. "The central thing is that the whole economy was based on growth," says Caltech Environmentalist Lester Lee, "and there was almost a religious conviction that growth and per capita energy use go together. That was a hard assumption to challenge." Paul Ehrlich agrees: "Our whole economic system is set up to maximize profits and put the emphasis on more production rather than on less usage...
Robert Head, a New Orleans, La., environmentalist, is intervening in that hearing on charges that the plant's emergency core cooling system will be inadequate for handling emergencies...
However, the proposed Waterford nuclear plant of Louisiana Power and Light, another Middle South Utilities subsidiary, presents a much more difficult problem. Robert Head, a New Orleans environmentalist, is opposing the plant on the grounds that its emergency safety features are inadequate, and only experts in nuclear physics are really competent to judge the validity of his claims...