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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.
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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.
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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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World Series betting tip:
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United Press International
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A
pair of science professors at Johnson
County Community College think
they have a hot tip for persons want
ing to win a few cents on the out
come of the World Series.
If the Los Angeles Dodgers don’t
win it in five games, the New York
Yankees will win it in seven.
So says Kevin Gratton and Paul
Tebbe, who base their prediction on
the biorhythms of the two teams.
Biorhythms are based on three
behavioral cycles: physical, intellec
tual and emotional. 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.
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