A new vanguard sounds the alarm

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Government employees, increasingly alarmed by the deregulation of environmental safeguards during the Reagan and Bush administrations, are helping environmental activists by publicizing cover-ups and leaking classified documents. They are threatened with firings and other disciplinary actions.

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Energy policy on the threshold

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Pres Clinton wants to redirect US energy policy so that industry and consumers will depend less on petroleum, use alternative resources that reduce pollution and save natural resources. His plan to tax energy based on heat content of fuels has faltered in light of stiff industry opposition.

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Running amuck in the Tennessee Valley

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The Tennessee Valley Authority wants to spend almost $3 billion to complete Bellefonte despite strong economic, environmental and electric power resource arguments against the plan. This costly approach to expanded electric power undermines efforts to develop alternative energy sources.

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