Kerry offers Energy Bill Amendments this week

[TayTay]

http://www.investors.com/breakingnews.asp?journalid=28217189&brk=1

In contrast to efforts to pass an energy bill during the last Congress, Senate Republicans decided to slowly walk a bill through the committee process over the past four months and add provisions crucial to engender Democratic backing -- a strategy that seems to have worked so far.

"The bipartisan bill coming to the Senate is much better" than previous versions, said Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., at a press briefing.

But Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., said: "I hope the U.S. Senate will go even further." Dorgan is a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

Democrats are expected to press for a greater reliance on renewable fuels, requiring electric utilities to generate 10% of their power from resources like the wind and sun. A second amendment to be offered by Senators Jim Jeffords, I-Vt., and John Kerry, D-Mass., would force utilities to produce 20% of their electricity from renewable resources.

[MH1]

1. But isn't the giveaway to the nuke industry still there?

I recently scrolled through amendments and didn't see one dealing with the nuclear subsidies. I could've missed it though.

Anyone know anything? Is JK quiet on new nuke plants?

[kerrygoddess]

2. Nuclear Subsidies Action Alert from the NIRS

The NIRS has an Action Alert regarding the Energy Bill and the nuclear power subsidies. The bottom line is building more Nukes is a very bad idea.

Please call your Senators and tell them No Subsidies for Nuclear Power. Capitol Switchboard is 202-224-3121. Two toll-free numbers that seem to work are: 1-888-355-3588 or 1-877-762-8762. Then, you can send an e-mail to your Senators by going to http://www.nuke.retro.com. Enjoy the Mark Fiore animation, and then click on the link to the action page.

Finally, if you haven’t yet signed the Petition for a Sustainable Energy Future, please do so now, at http://www.nirs.org and forward it to your friends too.

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=1074

There's an action alert from the NRDC on LUTD also!

[kerrygoddess]

3. Thanks for posting this!

I posted more from the article and some action alerts to go with it on LUTD - http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=1074