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Our environment. . . Utility official Hits anti-energy zealots Study could improve fi s | managemei United Press International WASHINGTON — : A power company official, equating en vironmental protection with anti-energy activity, has accused President Carter of giving power to a group of “coercive Utopians” who want to force their no growth philosophies on the na tion. H. Peter Metzger of the Col orado Public Service Go., in a speech distributed by the proin dustry National Environmental Development Association, said Carter has placed almost 100 former environmental and con sumer activists in federal policy jobs. “Like most zealots, they are very different from ordinary people,” Metzger said. “True be lievers all, they exude party line and exclude from serious atten tion any person or opinion which doesn’t conform with theirs.” What Carter has done, he said, is not just another example of the political spoils system in action because “for the first time in history, those in power have decided that the goose has laid enough golden eggs, and she’s going to be retired.” Environmentalists, “Nader- ites” and other “anti-energy ac- How to fight ‘city half United Press International WASHINGTON — Private citizens should play a larger role in the complex environmental impact statement process, which can be used to change the course of major federal projects, says Charles Warren of the Council on Environmental Quality. “Citizens are, after all, the only ‘experts’ capable of making the basic value choices that un derlie federal programs and pro jects,” Warren says in the foreword of a new handbook on how to influence or use impact statements. “It is one thing for an impact statement to identify the en-- vironmental consequences of a project; it is another to decide whether they are acceptable,” he said. “A government official in Washington, D.C., has a diffe rent perspective than a resident of the region who will benefit from the proposed project or a citizen of the immediate area af fected by it.” Warren recommended the use of the new handbook — “The Environmental Impact State ment Process, A Guide to Citi zen Action” — Written by former CEQ official Neil Orloff, now an associate professor at Cornell University and published by In formation Resources Press. OrlofFs 242-page book gives step-by-step instructions on how the EIS process operates and how citizens can use it to influ ence government decision mak ing. It acknowledges there may be many obstacles to getting in formation on proposed projects, but says they can be overcome. Among its suggestions and comments: —Projects generally look be nign on paper, but may pose se vere environmental impacts when they are actually built. —Not every project requires an EIS, but a statement will be needed for those posing major environmental impacts if they involve a federal agency or fed eral fends. A monthly govern ment printing office document called “The 102 Monitor,” de scribing projects for which statements already have been filed, is a good guide to what kind of project requires an EIS. —Citizens trying to influence an EIS should contact the federal official in charge of preparing the draft statement even before the draft is published. They should comment formally and very selectively on the draft after it comes out. — No project has been blocked by the EIS process alone, but many have been changed to make them more en vironmentally acceptable. tivists” in the administration have caused a virtual roadblock for both coal and nuclear power, Metzger said. He said they also have halted water and land de velopment. “I call these people ‘coercive Utopians,”’ Metzger said. He said their goals are “very murky” except for a few broad areas — cutting per capita energy consumption in half and halting growth, shifting from central generating plants to small neighborhood power stations under local control and turning from fossil and nuclear feels to solar energy. Metzger’s speech, delivered April 28 at the American College of Nuclear Medicine, was an un usually bitter public denuncia tion of federal environmental ac tivities. It has been reproduced and distributed both by NEDA — a coalition of industry, labor, ag riculture and other interests that campaigns for less environmental control — and by national rep resentatives of the electric utility industry. Just as environmentalists charge that giving government jobs to former industry officials causes a conflict of interest. Metzger accused Carter of creat ing a conflict of interest by giving Interior and Justice Department jobs to lawyers from the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council. He cited as an example a re cent suit over environmental im pact statements for new coal de velopment which ended in an ag reement that will bar most new coal development on federal lands until at least 1981. In that case, Metzger said, two of the government lawyers came from environmental groups and had been colleagues of the lawyer representing the plaintiff. People don't normally exp™ find Ph.D.s digging posthoC stock tanks. But that’s exactly what], A&M University biologist ^ Dronen is doing and it’s all J an unusual study of lifeforms Dronen is preparing foradeJ examination of the small aw universe most ranchers andfaij in Texas have come to depend^ the stock tank. rut m TM- Doratiiy, rn rust .Solid' Dronen hopes the inform gained may help producers, shrimp and fish farmers, mil _ their animals and watering! more efficiently. Dronen has dug 10 tanks at Texas A&M Research and Exteii Center near Bryan for the pu and hopes to have them filled! water by spring. The study will measure the pact “introduced predators” (fis other words) have on amphih insects, parasites and microsj algae. ABU TnfrvsXry qnd Latop' TU, l.*« '71 ^ The parasite Dronen is studt does not hast- harmful efferti livestock or wildlife, however;! lung parasite in amphibians.Hk | search might eventually bei paneled to review such organia| . The basie experiments Dime undertaking will study the prei fish’s impact in an environ® where the food chain is depd on snails and aquatic insects,! fish’s most abundant food souir In some circumstances, theiitl duction of bass or catfish mightli the delicate balance of a stodtj Since no two tanks on thesamefi are similar, the fish might: times prove beneficial. Dronen will rigidly controlth tivities in eight of the ten produce similar environments study. iimniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinmuimmiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiimiiiimiiiiiiiiHimiiiiiiimimiii^ 1 MAMA'S PIZZA I DELIVERS 11 A.M.-11 P.M. DAILY I <S ,C> 1 i PIZZA, SPAGHETTI, 1 LASAGNA, SALADS, & DRINKS = ($5.00 MINIMUM) 1 696-3380 to s 807 TEXAS AVE. T v _ SiiimmiiHiiimiiiiiiimiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiuiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiuuiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiR iiliiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiniiiilliiiiiiiiiiilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll||| Latest study on rats indicates DDT, now banned might not cause cancer United Press International WASHINGTON — A two-year government-sponsored animal test indicates that DDT may not, after all, cause cancer. The findings contradict earlier studies which indicated the once widely-used insecticide DDT is capable of causing cancer in mice. OFF - CAMPUS STUDENT ASSOCIATION ] OFF-CAMPUS GIRLS! COME DINE WITH THE CORPS OCT. 25th DUNCAN DINING HALL - 6:30 P.M. SIGN UP NOW IN THE MSC RM. 216 OFF-CAMPUS STUDENT ASSOC. (OSA) CUBICLE UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL 315 N. College Main Hubert Beck, Campus Pastor 846-6687 846-2802 (home) (Serving Lutherans at Texas A&M from All Synods) Sunday Worship with Holy Communion 9:15 & 10:45 A.M. Sunday Evening Worship with Bible Study 6:00 P.M. Wednesday Evening Candlelight Communion Service 10:00 P.M. You don’t explain love. ^ You try it. The National Cancer Institute re ported Monday that DDT fed to laboratory rats and mice for 78 weeks produced no evidence the chemical caused tumors. The report noted, however, that negative results “do not necessarily mean the test chemicals are not car cinogens (cancer causers) because the experiments are conducted under a limited set of cir cumstances.” DDT was banned from most uses in the United States in 1973, not only because it was a suspected car cinogen, but because of its apparent impact on animal life. The compound was included in the NCI’s broad chemical testing program because of its wide use na tionally for more than two decades and because it persists in the envi ronment for years. DDT still is used to kill malaria- carrying mosquitos in other parts of the world. In addition to DDT, two related chemicals, TDE and DDE were tested. Both are by-products of DDT. The NCI said the tests produced suggestive but inconclusive evi dence that TDE caused thyroid cancer in male rats. DDE caused liver cancer in mice. DDT was developed as an insec ticide in the 1940s and was used widely until the mid-1960s when environmentalists detected an appa rent link between it and various ecological problems such asnui ous fish kills and the decline of: tain bird populations. In announcing the ban on DD! 1972, William RuckelshaoS, head of the Environmental Pn tion Agency, said mice fed DD!j several studies had deveh tumors. And in a 1975 report. EPA said DDT should still be j sidered a potential human m agent. In the NCI tests, rats were served for 35 weeks and micefej weeks after being fed DDT for weeks. Although some animalsi during the test period, the rep said enough survived long enoi to be at risk from late-develop: tumors. 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By juggling the three with the help of a computer, Gratton and Tebbe say they are able to ascertain the periods of maximum and minimum efficiency as well as a player’s average performance dur ing a specified period of time. Some of Gratton and Tebbe’s — and the computer s — observations about the World Series that opened Tuesday night in Los Angeles: Rick Monday should be effective early because his cycles are up in all areas. Ron Cey should be of more value late, being up physically and emotionally. Tommy John and Dick Ruthven should pitch as much as possible. Don Sutton willbebel par the entire time. Burt Hw should he held out until the I* games. I LAKEVIEW CLUB “Mickey Rivers and Jackson, if they were not such standing players, should sit. Series out. Both will he in l<Wf cles most of the time. Cl Chambliss could be the star # Series for the Yankees. Hisphyi cycle is on the up side durin? entire period. 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