Word: wirth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wirth, who will speak this month at Harvard on environmental concerns, says a tax geared towards conserving energy might be a viable policy option for the president. He says a gasoline tax would be "smart economic policy and smart energy policy...
Says Sen. Timothy E. Wirth '61 (D-Colo.), "they're not going to change defense. They're not going to change Social Security. They're not going to change federal retirees' [pensions]. So what are they going...
...members of Congress are cyncial about Bush's expected proposal, they say they are optimistic about Bush's advisers. Director of the Office of Management and Budget Richard G. Darman '64, for one, is well-respected on Capitol Hill, according to Wirth...
...spewing enough gases into the atmosphere to heat up the earth in a greenhouse effect that could eventually produce disastrous climate changes. But until recently, the prophets of global warming garnered about as much attention as the religious zealots who insist that Armageddon is near. When Colorado Senator Timothy Wirth held congressional hearings on the greenhouse effect in the fall of 1987, the topic generated no heat at all. "We had a very, very distinguished panel," Wirth recalled at the TIME Environment Conference, "and who was in the cavernous hearing room? Six or seven people, and two or three...
...Wirth decided to schedule another hearing in the summer, hoping hot weather would make people pay attention to the greenhouse issue. Sure enough, when the hearing convened last June 23, the thermometer read 99 degrees F, a Washington record for that day. The room was packed when James Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, turned global warming into front- page news at last. "It is time to stop waffling so much," he declared. "The evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here...