Word: environmentalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspicious of S. David Freeman, who helped Schlesinger draft the energy program; they regard him as a doctrinaire conservationist who does not even want to increase energy production. William P. Tavoulareas, president of Mobil Oil Corp., adds that "everybody we see in the Interior Department these days is an environmentalist...
...tacky works of man-notably, several cheap-Jack old-folks' dwellings built in the Florida Keys. John D. MacDonald, author of the Travis McGee thrillers, does not include his detective hero in this large, motley cast. Pity, McGee's cynicism disguises the passion of an exasperated environmentalist. His mesomorphic Floridian would have collared the dredgers and developers, and punched the crooked county commissioners in the chops...
...drag their feet as long as possible on converting to coal or opt for nuclear power instead. It is difficult to see how coal usage could be increased as much as Carter wants without the scrubbers, unless clean-air laws are relaxed-and that, of course, would bring the environmentalist lobby out in full...
...three days, 88 participants-including former Treasury Secretary George Shultz, Senator Henry Jackson, Eastern Air Lines Chairman Frank Borman and Environmentalist Barry Commoner -discussed the problems of shortages, alternative sources, conservation and energy legislation. One of the speakers was Presidential Adviser Schlesinger, the "Mr. Energy" of our April 4 cover story, in which we published a preview of the Administration's energy program. Although there were heated debates, I was struck by a spirit of cooperation even among ideological opposites. Everyone seemed finally convinced that we must all work together to solve this dilemma...
...when he lectures on "Energy and Congress." Hart engineered George McGovern's startling success in the 1972 Democratic presidential primaries and triumph at the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach. After the unsuccessful fall campaign, Hart got going on his own Senate race. He triumphed in 1974 on an environmentalist platform...