Leading environmental group says Klobuchar's energy bill is terrible for environment

[becxx]

Here's the words of the Natural Resources Defense Council: It should come as no surprise that the first copy of the full text of Sen Klobuchar's energy bill was found on a corn ethanol industry association website; the bill reads like the industry's wish list."

Here's the full piece: http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/ngreene/klobuchar_bill_trojan_horse.html

This is no surprise. Klobuchar's cruel positions on health care also came from industry and do her positions on financial reform.

Klobuchar The Corporatist.

[dflprincess]

1. Not surprising coming from Amy

more from the link:

http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/ngreene/klobuchar_bill_trojan_horse.html

Here are some of laundry list of bad biofuel provisions:

- 5 year extension of the corn ethanol tax credit (which mostly enriches oil companies such as BP). This would cost over $30 billion. (Here’s a link the NRDC’s posts on this wasteful tax credit.)
Gutting the definition of renewable biomass so that it would include everything from old growth to garbage without any regard for protecting the places families have hiked for generations and untold numbers of wild animals call home.

- Legislating away the science of lifecycle GHG accounting for ethanol. Using lots of land to make ethanol instead of food means that food production moves to new land and that leads to deforestation. The Klobuchar bill would prohibit EPA from following the science.

- Defining mature and mainstream corn ethanol, which has been commercially produced for well over 30 years as an “advanced biofuel” under the RFS2. This pulls the rug out from under investors and entrepreneurs that have been trying to develop truly advanced biofuels.

- Mandating Giving a free pass to E15—a higher blend of ethanol and gasoline than currently allowed—and again trying to legislate the science ignoring possible public health and safety risks, which EPA and DOE are actively studying. the legislation provides a wiaver of liability for selling blends of ethanol and gasoline even if it poses a threat to public health or safety.

- Huge give aways for building corn ethanol pipes to the coast so that we can ship our “home grown energy” overseas.

Please - somebody run against her for the endorsement.

[Angry Dragon]

5. Posted wrong place

[glinda]

2. She is sometimes good on environmental issues. We need to write her.

She mistakes her "Blue-dog" position as fair representation of people of MN. but she is far off base I think. You cannot represent the Republicans and the Dems at the same time.

[dflprincess]

3. It isn't so much representing Republicans vs Democrats

it's the status quo (or even backsliding) vs progress.

[becxx]

4. Exactly

And Klobuchar votes way too often on the side of big business. She obviously is controlled by her campaign contributors.

[Angry Dragon]

6. Does that make her a corporate whore??