Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Austin says his coalition of 20 groups is typical of organizations that use their power as shareholders to influence corporate policy. The diverse coalition is one of many different groups pooling their shares and numbers to oppose nuclear energy...
Officials in the National Council of Churches, an unusually powerful and active articulator of shareholder dissatisfaction with corporate practices, say that, for the first time, churches are preparing a significant number of resolutions directed at the nuclear power industry...
...Churches and their congregations are realizing that nuclear energy is no longer a safe, cheap or viable energy source, although the nuclear industry has told them otherwise," Chris Cowap, one of the council's directors, says...
...Smith, executive director of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a group similar to the National Council of Churches but aimed directly at investment policy says institutional churches will emerge as a cohesive power, questioning the future of nuclear energy in America...
...center and council will try to increase the opposition to nuclear power, Smith says, by supporting anti-nuclear legislation, distributing information to their member churches and seeking the support of scientists opposed to nuclear energy...