Records, 1966-1969.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Records, 1966-1969.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122600227

Records of the Citizens Committee for the Protection of the Environment (CCPE) include correspondence, memoranda, reports, statements, notes, news releases, U.S. Atomic Energy/Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearing records, and printed material. The correspondence contains letters from supporters, members of other environmental groups, New York State legislators, U.S. senators and congressmen, scientists, and CCPE's attorney for the Indian Point hearings. Chief correspondents of the group are Larry Bogart, Executive Director, Dr. George Candreva, President, and Irene P. Dickinson (Mrs. Leon A.), Executive Secretary and Coordinator, whose file these are. There are numerous letters from Congressmen John G. Dow, Richard Ottinger, and Peter Peyser. The cataloged correspondence contains three letters from Senator Jacob K. Javits, and one each from Senator Edmund S. Muskie, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, and Louis J. Lefkowitz, New York State Attorney General. In addition to CCPE's own memoranda, statements, news releases, brochures, and other printed ephemera, Mrs. Dickinson maintained an environmental subject file which includes newspaper clippings, magazine articles, newsletters, and other printed ephemera issued by a variety of environmental groups as well as some related correspondence. The files on the Indian Point nuclear power plant, approximately 1,800 items, contain photocopies of U.S. Atomic Energy Commission/Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearings, documents such as testimony before the commission, inspection reports, correspondence of the commission, Consolidated Edison, CCPE and its attorney, Anthony Z. Roisman, of Berlin, Roisman and Kessler, Washington, D.C. The printed materials include pamphlets, newspapers, newsletters, and other publication issued by a variety of citizens' action groups.

9.5 linear ft (ca. 4,650 items in 22 boxes)

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6783835

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

Related Entities

There are 18 Entities related to this resource.

New York (State). Dept. of Law.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dp4wxt (corporateBody)

In 1954, the Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIRC) was established by a group of tobacco manufacturers, growers and warehousemen to fund a program of scientific research into questions of tobacco use and health. As initially configured, the TIRC's functions included both the funding of research and the coordination of public relations activities relating to tobacco and health. By 1958 the tobacco industry conceded the difficulty of managing scientific research and public relati...

Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69h6chb (person)

Jacob Koppel Javits (May 18, 1904 – March 7, 1986) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, Javits served in the U.S. House of Representatives representing New York's 21st congressional district from 1947 to 1954, as the 58th Attorney General of New York from 1955 to 1957, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from 1957 until 1981. After graduating from New York University School of Law, he established a law practice in New York City. During World War II, he serv...

Smith, Margaret Chase, 1897-1995

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p66c0x (person)

Margaret Chase Smith was born in Skowhegan, Maine, on December 14, 1897. Her entry into politics came through the career of Clyde Smith, the man she married in 1930. Clyde was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1936. Margaret served as his secretary. When Clyde died in 1940, she succeeded her husband. After four terms in the House, she won election to the United States Senate in 1948. In so doing, she became the first woman elected to both houses of Congress. Senator Smi...

Peyser, Peter.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jx0k04 (person)

Ottinger, Richard L. (Richard Lawrence), 1929-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64x6wbw (person)

Richard Lawrence Ottinger (born January 27, 1929) is an American lawyer, legal educator, and politician. A Democrat, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 25th (1965-1971), 24th (1975-1983), and 20th (1983-1985) congressional districts. Born in New York City, he attended the public schools of Scarsdale, New York before graduating from the Loomis School in Windsor, Connecticut and earning a B.A. from Cornell University and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School. He was admit...

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65f37j2 (corporateBody)

Candreva, George.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vd940s (person)

Roisman, Anthony Z.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6030x92 (person)

Bogart, Larry K.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d24391 (person)

Consolidated Edison Company of New York, inc.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n911q1 (corporateBody)

The Cornwall Pumped-Storage Project proposed to pump water from the Hudson River up to a reservoir located behind Storm King Mountain, which could then be released to generate electricity when needed. From the description of Cornwall Pumped-Storage Project records, 1966-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155520794 ...

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cv85zh (corporateBody)

This collection of transparencies was used by representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission (A.E.C.) during a presentation before the Alaska House State Affairs Committee, April 4, 1970, in Juneau. At the time of the presentation, the A.E.C. was planning a second underground nuclear test on Amchitka Island in 1971, code-named CANNIKIN. Testimony was heard from several groups against a second test as well as adverse testimony about the first test which took place in October, 1969 and was code n...

Dow, John G. (John Goodchild), 1905-2003

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h43xhw (person)

Lefkowitz, Louis J.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dz0sg0 (person)

Muskie, Edmund S., 1914-1996

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bc417s (person)

Governor of Maine, U.S. senator, U.S. secretary of state, of Waterville, Me.; d. 1996. From the description of Christmas card, 1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70926049 United States senator from Maine. From the description of Address : at water symposium, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1966 June 15. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 33841361 Politician, governor of Maine, U.S. senator from Maine, and U.S. Secretary of State; d....

Dickinson, Irene Power

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qg0z16 (person)

Berlin, Roisman, and Kessler (Washington, D.C.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66q7kvt (corporateBody)

Dickinson, Leon T.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x94gn4 (person)

Citizens Committee for the Protection of the Environment (Ossining, N.Y.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69w640h (corporateBody)

BIOGHIST REQUIRED Citizens action group founded in 1968. This organization has devoted its activity to the quality of the environment in the lower Hudson River Valley, particularly the environmental hazards of Consolidated Edison's Indian Point nuclear power plants. From the guide to the Citizens Committee for the Protection of the Environment Papers, 1966-1969., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Citizens action group founded in 1968. ...