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Dear Colleagues:

	This is to suggest that SE2 consider filing suit complaining
about the lack of an environmental impact statement or the unsatisfactory
nature of the statement in connection with Federal and State plans
for tax breaks or other incentives for insulating houses.  The enclosed
article from the %2L.A. Times%1 gives motivation.  The only mistake
in the article is the acceptance of the statement that the problem
is new.  It is at least several years old.

	Probably the motivation for inaction cited in the article
is also misstated.  The envirocrats haven't been reluctant in the
past to interfere with homeowners; the problem may rather be that
they regard themselves as the good guys and can't bring themselves
to believe that any program they support can harm the health of
the population.

	The Blakeslee article contains the material for a direct
computation of how many more radiation caused cancers will result
from not building a reactor and insulating better.

	Here are some considerations that might be involved in
such a suit:

	1. It seems to me that if the suit is filed by a frankly
pro-nuclear group charging cancer from radiation, it will get a certain
amount of man-bites-dog publicity.

	2. The publicity needs to be done well.  It must explain
how the bureaucrats and environmentalists can't bring themselves
findxamine issues that they demand of everyone else.

	3. While the suit must merely cite the lack or inadequacy
of the impact statement, we should figure out what we want to happen.
In my opinion, the most important thing is that producing plenty
of energy, even a surplus of energy, is good not bad.
The prevalent assumption among nice people that production of energy
is an evil (sometimes necesary) that will be attacked along with the presumption
that the Envirocrats are necessarily good guys and needn't obey
the laws they have written for others.

	I suppose that the %2L.A. Times%1 reporter, Sandra Blakeslee,
whom I knew when she worked for the Stanford News Service, must
have additional material which she would tell us about.

.sgnp

cc: Todorovich, Dugan, Bloom, Seitz, Weinberg, Teller

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