Word: naderized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Ralph Nader offered a gloomy answer: a 700-page report entitled Water Wasteland, the product of a 21-month study by one of Nader's numerous teams of "raiders." Despite 15 years of effort, seven laws and more than $3 billion in expenditures, say the researchers, the federal program to curb water pollution is "a miserable failure...
Laggard States. The main problem, asserts the Nader group, is the federal program's failure to control industrial effluents. They account for at least 50% of the oxygen-consuming wastes handled by municipal water-treatment plants, many of which are thus overloaded. They also include very dangerous contaminants (arsenic, cadmium, mercury), which few treatment plants can remove from drinking water. Even advanced plants, says the report, may be unable to handle the estimated 500 new chemicals that industry develops each year...
...Jobs. Nader's group is not optimistic about the effectiveness of either President Nixon's or Senator Edmund Muskie's water-quality bills now before Congress. Though both improve present laws, they are riddled with loopholes. To close them, the researchers propose several amendments. Example: federal pollution-control officers should be made to investigate all offenses and issue abatement orders immediately-or themselves face penalties...
During his prepared remarks, Bayh said an attack on corporations will continue if corporations do not find a place for social responsibility in their structure. Bayh said he supports Campaign GM-an effort organized by a Ralph Nader-backed group of Washington lawyers to force General Motors to accept its social responsibility through a proxy vote...
Campaign GM, a group of Washington lawyers supported by Ralph Nader, has placed three proposals on the General Motors Corporation proxy statement. These proposals would...