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WJXT-TV in Jacksonville had a reputation for crusading. Last year when the station hired Thompson, 28, an experienced Memphis newspaper reporter, he was told: "We have no sacred cows here." Assigned to the pollution beat in March, Thompson turned out a series of explosive documentaries that named names, showed...
Approving fan mail poured in, but Charley was soon caught in a stampede of sacred cows. He got blamed when the station manager was dropped from the Rotary Club and when the Chamber of Commerce accused WJXT of "trying to keep Jacksonville from developing." Employees of one embattled company made...
Some experts want to increase the price of electricity as a way to moderate demand and provide industry with money to pay for expensive antipollution devices. Others, including the Federal Power Commission's Vice Chairman Bagge, suggest that parts of the nation may have to consider rationing. President Nixon...
TAPS officials argue that special safeguards, including 73 cutoff valves and aerial surveillance, would prevent any disaster. Even so, last April, conservation groups persuaded a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to enjoin both the pipeline and the access road. Neither can be built, the court ruled, until the Interior Department...
A major rationale for more logging in national forests is that the bulk of the Government's high-yield timber areas are located in sections of Alaska, California, the Northwest and parts of the South "not uniquely valuable for other uses." The commission would also amend the General Mining...