Crimes Against Nature (31 page)

34
. Kyle Rabin, Riverkeeper, e-mail to David Ludlum, May 12, 2004.

35
. See V. L. Sailor et al., “Severe Accidents in Spent Fuel Pools in Support of Generic Safety Issue 82,” NUREG/CR-4982, Washington, D.C.: NRC, July 1987.

36
. “The Mastermind,” 60
Minutes II,
March 5, 2003.

37
. “Fresh FBI terror warning,” BBC News, November 15, 2002, viewed at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2481799.stm.

38
. “Security Gap: A Hard Look at the Soft Spots in Our Civilian Nuclear Reactor Security,” U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, March 25, 2002.

39
. Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Section 50.13 (10 CFR §50.13).

40
. Douglas Pasternak, “A Nuclear Nightmare,”
U.S. News & World Report,
September 17, 2001, viewed at http://www.nci.org/01/09/09-3.htm.

41
. “Report of Investigation: Entergy Nuclear Northeast, Indian Point #2; Security Services IP 2-431,” Keith Logan, January 25, 2002.

42
.
Riverkeeper, Inc. v. Collins,
2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 3398 (2 d Cir. 2004).

43
. “Nuclear Regulatory Commission Oversight of Security at Commercial Nuclear Power Plants Needs to Be Strengthened,” U.S. General Accounting Office, Sept. 2003, viewed at
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?
GAO-03-752.

44
. Ibid.

45
. Ibid.

46
. Matthew Wald, “Nuclear Regulatory Agency Lax on Reactor Security, Congressional Audit Finds,”
New York Times,
September 28, 2003.

47
. “Witt Report,” viewed at http://www.wittassociates.com/NYReport.zip.

48
. Mary Boyle, “Political Meltdown: Yucca Mountain Supporters Contribute $29.2 Million in Soft Money,” Common Cause, March 13, 2002.

49
. Ibid.

50
. “Corporate Security Spending Only Up Slightly,” Conference Board Newsletter, Fall 2003, viewed at http://www.conferenceboard.org/publications/newsletter/dec2003_security.cfm.

1
. Senator Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day, at http://www.missouri.edu/~polidjw/Nelson.html; see also Senator Gaylord Nelson, “All About
Earth Day,” at http://earthday.
wilderness.org/history/.

2
. Comments by Gaylord Nelson to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., April 22, 1990.

3
. See “Diminishing Returns: World Fisheries Under Pressure,” World Resources Institute, 1998-1999, viewed at http://pubs.wri.org/pubs_content_text.cfm?ContentID=1390.

4
. NRDC, “Global Warming Puts the Arctic on Thin Ice,” NRDC, viewed at http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/qthinice.asp.

5
. “Key Facts: Race, Ethnicity & Medical Care,” Kaiser Family Foundation, June 2003, viewed at http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/6069=index.cfm; see also, “Racial Bias Has Effect on Health Stress of Unequal Access, Socioeconomic Status Play Roles, says Expert,”
Akron Beacon Journal,
June 15, 2003.

6
. “Study Sees Mass Extinctions Via Warming,” MSNBC, January 8, 2004,
viewed at http://msnbc.msn.com/id/
3897120.

7
. “Mixed Media,”
Sierra Club Magazine,
November 2003, viewed at http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200311/media.asp; see also “Networks Gave Environment 4 Percent of 15,000 Prime News Hole Minutes in 2002,” Metcalf Institute Environment Writer, June 2003, viewed at http://environmentwriter.org/resources/articles/0603_networks.htm.

8
. See Federal Radio Act of 1927 at http://showcase.netins.net/web/akline/pdf/1927act.pdf.

9
. See Fairness Doctrine, at http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/F/htmlF/fairnessdoct/fairnessdoct.htm.

10
. “Tobacco Advertising in the United States,” Media Scope, March 9, 2000, viewed at http://www.mediascope.org/pubs/ibriefs/taus.htm.

11
.
Friends of the Earth v. FCC,
449 F. 2d 1164 (D.C. Cir. 1971).

12
. Bill Moyers, Keynote Address to the National Conference on Media Reform November 8, 2003, viewed at http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1112-10.htm.

13
.
Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC,
395 U.S. 367 (1969), viewed at http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=395&invol=367.

14
.
In re Complaint of Syracuse Peace Council against Television Station WTVH Syracuse, New York,
99 FCC 2d 1389 (1984).

15
. Mafruza Khan, “Media Diversity at Risk,”
Corp Watch,
May 29, 2003.

16
. Fairness Doctrine.

17
. Eric Boehlert, “Is Clear Channel Playing a ‘Shell Game’?” Salon.com, November 20, 2001, viewed at http://dir.salon.com/ent/clear_channel/2001/1
₁
/20/fcc_complaint/index.html.

18
. William Safire, “Halt Media Madness,”
Arizona Daily Star,
February 17, 2004.

19
. “Super Polluters — The Top 25 Superfund Polluters and Their Toxic Waste Sites,” Public Interest Research Group, viewed at http://www.pirg.org/reports/enviro/super25/index.htm.

20
. Ibid.

21
. “Goldman Environmental Prize Recipients,” viewed at http://www.goldmanprize.org/recipients/recipients.html.

22
. Complaint in
Steve Wilson and Jane Akre vs. New World Communications of Tampa, Inc.,
Florida 13 th Judicial Circuit, General Civil Division.

23
. “Florida Milk Supply Riddled With Artificial Hormone Linked to Cancer; Reporters Say They Were Ordered to Lie About It on Fox-TV,” BGH Bulletin (2000), viewed at http://www.foxbghsuit.com/.

24
. Michael Hansen, Ph.D., et al., “Potential Public Health Impacts of the Use of Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin in Dairy Production,” September 1997, viewed at http://www.consumersunion.org/food/bgh-codex.htm.

25
. “Dairy farmers applaud gov’t rejection of growth hormone,” CBC News, January 15, 1999, viewed at http://www.cbc.ca/stories/1999/01/15/sci-tech/bgh990115.

26
. “New Zealand adopts strict tests to keep out genetically modified seeds,” Associated Press Worldstream, August
1, 2002, viewed at http://ngin.tripod.
com/010802b.htm.

27
. Paul Elias/Associated Press, “Consumer Watch: Production cutback revives hormone debate; Tainted batches of Monsanto’s engineered hormone used in dairy herds have rekindled safety concerns,”
Philadelphia Inquirer,
February 15, 2004, p. E05.

28
. “The Mystery in Your Milk,” Ibid., viewed at http://www.foxbghsuit.com/exhibit%20r.htm.

29
. Letter to Roger Ailes, CEO of Fox News, from attorney John J. Walsh, February 21, 1997, viewed at http://
www.foxbghsuit.com/.

30
. Ibid.

31
. Complaint in
Steve Wilson and Jane Akre vs. New World Communications of Tampa, Inc.

32
. Steve Wilson, interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., June 2004.

33
. Complaint in
Steve Wilson and Jane Akre vs. New World Communications of Tampa, Inc.

34
. Trial transcript,
Steve Wilson and Jane Akre vs. New World Communications of Tampa, Inc.

35
. Steve Wilson, interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., June 2004.

36
. Opinion in
New World Communications of Tampa, Inc. vs. Jane Akre,
Florida Second District Court of Appeal, Case No. 2D01-529, February 14, 2003.

37
.
New World Communications of Tampa, Inc. v. Akre,
2003 WL 327505 (Fla.App. 2 Dist. 2003).

38
. Opinion in
New World Communications of Tampa, Inc. vs. Jane Akre.

39
.
Amicus curiae
brief,
New World Communications of Tampa, Inc. vs. Jane Akre,
September 13, 2001, Florida Second District Court of Appeal, Case No. 2D01-529.

40
. Order Granting Rehearing and Clarification and Denying Rehearing En Banc and Certification,
New World Communications of Tampa, Inc. vs. Jane Akre,
Florida Second District Court of Appeal, Case No. 2D01-529, February 25, 2003.

41
. Steve Wilson, interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., June 2004.

42
. Jane Akre, interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., June 2004.

43
. Steve Wilson, interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., June 2004.

44
. Marvin Kitman, “Talk is Cheap, but Reruns are Cheaper Still, Chuck,”
Newsday,
June 24, 1998, p. B43.

45
. Arianna Huffington, interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., April 2004.

46
. Laurie David, interview by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., April 2004.

47
. Bill Moyers, “Bill Moyers on Big Media: The Lobbyists Overpower the People on FCC Ruling,”
Public Affairs Television,
October 13, 2003, viewed at http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=15798.

48
. Ibid.

49
. Ibid.

50
. John Dunbar and Aron Pilhofer, “Big Radio Rules in Small Markets” (part of the report “Well Connected”), Center for Public Integrity, October 1, 2003, viewed at http://www.publicintegrity.org/telecom/report.aspx?aid=63.

51
. Moyers, “Bill Moyers on Big Media.”

52
. Ibid.

53
. Ibid.

54
. Bill Moyers, Keynote Address to the National Conference on Media Reform, November 8, 2003; see also Charles Layton, “News Blackout,”
American Journalism Review,
January 2004.

55
. Anne Marie Squeo and Joe Flint, “Court Bars Media-Owner-ship Rules,”
Wall Street Journal
, June 25, 2004, p. A3.

1
. “Tax Administration: Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign and U.S. Controlled Corporations, 1996-2000,” April 2, 2004, Report #GAO-04-358, viewed at htttp://www.gao.gov/text/d04358.txt.

2
. Address at the laying of the cornerstone of the Pilgrim Memorial Monument, Provincetown, Mass., August 20, 1907, viewed at http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/troosevelt4.html.

3
. “Military-Industrial Complex Speech,” 1961, Public Papers of the Presidents, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960, p. 1035-104, viewed at http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html.

4
. “Message proposing the ‘Standard Oil’ Monopoly Investigation,” 1938, viewed at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/f/franklind135684.html.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, chief prosecuting attorney for Riverkeeper, and president of Waterkeeper Alliance. He is also a clinical professor and supervising attorney at the Environmental Litigation Clinic at Pace University School of Law. A former assistant district attorney for New York City, he is the coauthor of
The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right.

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