Friends Of The Earth
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Anne Gorsuch, Mr. Reagan's appointee to direct the
Environmental Protection Agency, has employed a covey of
big-business lawyers to help run her office. In an early
move, Ms. Gorsuch's EPA reversed gears on the cleanup of
chemical dump sites. What's more, her newly hired head of
the agency's strip-mining office spent time (on his
previous job in Ohio) trying to get the stripmining control
law declared unconstitutional! (He lost that battle, so now
he must enforce the law he fought.)
WHAT'S A PERSON TO DO?
In the face of such an obvious lack of concern for—or
understanding of—our environmental dilemmas, should
we just give up in disgust? Not at all! As bleak as the
scene in Washington appears to be, there are plenty of good
signs elsewhere. Folks across the country have been moved
by the current turn of events, and they're joining
environmental groups in droves .. so that their voices can
be heard. In the recent New Jersey primary election, for
example, conservation-minded candidates won four out of
four nominations for the state legislature. Environ
mentalists in the House of Representatives are regaining a
bit of their courage, too, and should put up a good battle
against the legislative assaults that the administration
and its allies promise to mount against environmental
causes.
Still, the immediate future looks as if it'll hold its
share of challenges. Hence, it's more important than ever
that you let your representatives know just what you think.
Secretary Watt continually states that the majority of U.S.
citizens support him, and that those who protest his
actions are simply a vocal minority. Don't leave any doubt
which side you're on!
A SHORT ENERGY QUIZ
Here's a test that almost no one—including many
people in high places—can get right. List, in
descending order, the relative contributions of the
following sources of energy (given alphabetically here) to
our nation's power consumption: coal, gas, hydro, nuclear,
and oil. Ready? The winner by a wide margin is coal, which
supplies nearly half of the country's electrical capacity.
Then—in declining order—we have gas, hydro,
nuclear, and oil.
