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TVA's Role. In another attack on stripping, three national conservation groups recently filed suit in a federal district court against the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest purchaser of strip-mined coal and producer of electricity. The Sierra Club, National Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense...
The environmentalists designed the suit to force TVA-whose charter includes conservation-to use its influence as a major coal buyer to control the surface miners' practices. The suit names the Kentucky Oak Mining Co. as TVA's principal supplier in eastern Kentucky. Although state reclamation officials have...
Italy does have ardent conservation groups like the Rome-based Italia Nostra (Our Italy), which has prodded the government into curbing commercial development in at least one of Italy's forest areas. Now the public, the courts and regional governments are beginning to stir. A Rome magistrate, for example...
In the meantime, conservation groups and the state have recently obtained some important concessions from Vermont Yankee in the form on improved emissions standards for the Vernon plant. But Vermont continues to explain that it is entirely unable to conduct effective monitoring and enforcement of the improved standards. And it...
In the nine years since Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring first documented DDT's disastrous effects on animal life, environmentalists have carried on a determined campaign against the potent pesticide. The U.S. Government has responded to their efforts by restricting the use of DDT. Several states have...