Carter, President Jimmy

The prospect of a patchwork of state standards became a cause of great concern to manufacturers. When President Jimmy Carter was elected, he proposed that mandatoi y standards be set by the Department of Energy (DOE) to replace the voluntary efficiency targets. Wliile opposing mandatory standards at the federal level, manufacturers acquiesced to the National Energy Conservation and Policy Act (NECPA) of 1978, which required DOE to set appliance efficiency standards for residential products. In return, manufacturers were able to obtain a requirement for DOE to evaluate the impacts on manufacturers that standards would impose and to consider them in setting the standards. 

July. U.S President Jimmy Carter proposes 88 billion effort to enhance production of synthetic fuels from coal and shale oil reserves. 

June. U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the Energy Security Act. 

Campaigning for the presidency, Jimmy Carter calls for removing federal penalties for possession of up to one ounce of marijuana. 

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter recommended federal marijuana decriminalization because of the harm being done to young people arrested for its use. However, even the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), endorses the statement that adolescent marijuana use should be a legitimate concern for all Americans. 25... 

Evaluation, was carried out for President Jimmy Carter of the United States. The United States had called for this study, in which 50 countries participated and which required several years to complete. The study concluded that only administrative controls such as those already in place would be effective, and these could only delay really determined nations from diverting nuclear fuel from power reactors to military weapons. By 2003, North Korea became the first example of the subversion of test/commercial nuclear materials for use in weapons. 

President Jimmy Carter makes his 51st blood donation in a blood mobile at the White House. 

U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes study leading to the Global 2000 report. This report recognizes biodiversity for the first time as a critical characteristic in the proper functioning of the planetary ecosystem. It asserts that the robust nature of ecosystems is weakened by species extinction. 

According to former president Jimmy Carter, the aborted rescue of the hostages in Iran was an incomplete success. 

The CERCLA s creation was a response to the growing concern over escalating dangers associated with inappropriately disposed hazardous waste. The most commonly cited incident being the Niagara Falls, New York s Love Canal, where then-president Jimmy Carter declared the former landfill a federal... 

Matters initially came to a head in early August 1978. First the New York State health commissioner, and then President Jimmy Carter, declared a state of emergency. The school was ordered closed, and the state announced that 236 families living nearest the dump would be moved from their homes. A second crisis erupted in May 1980, after a researcher reported genetic damage in more distant portions of the neighborhood. After two EPA officials were demonstratively taken hostage by homeowners, another 700 families were evacuated.42... 

Fig. P-33. When he was president, Jimmy Carter kept fit by jogging. (Courtesy, Karl Schumacher of the Carter White House)...

May A panel convened by U.S. president Jimmy Carter concludes that the flash detected by the Vela satellite on 22 September 1979 was likely to have been caused by dust from a meteorite rather than a nuclear explosion. 22 September The han-haq War begins when haq... 

When former President Jimmy Carter returned to Georgia in January, 1981, Andrew Young, his friend and former member of his cabinet, had been elected Mayor of Atlanta. Commissioner of Transportation Tom Moreland, who had served as Governor Carter s Commissioner, remained in that position. At that juncture, Mr. Carter was formulating plans to establish a Presidential Library but had not yet developed a plan to finance the library project. The large tract of unused highway land had become an eyesore and a place for crime. Public officials were weary of the controversy and the failed efforts to resolve the impasse as to how the highway land would be used. 

July 6 Former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton appeal to President George W. Bush to take action to prevent the federal assault weapons han from lapsing. However, Congress is expected to end the current session without further action. 

The election of Jimmy Carter as President in 1976 ensured a continuation of tolerance to drug use, particularly marijuana. In March 1977, the Special Assistant for Health Issues to the President, and high officials from the DEA, the State Department, the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), NIMH, the Customs Service, and the Justice Department appeared before the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control to argue for the decriminalization of marijuana. The President himself repeated a similar theme before Congress later that year. 

In America Jimmy Carter, who pursued detente with the Soviet Union, was defeated by former actor and Governor of California, Ronald Rea n. The 69 year old former Screen Actors Guild President became President of the United States on January 20, 1981, and would too, become pivotal to the Cold War s climax. 

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