House Energy Bill/Tell Congress No More Money For Nukes

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Support Renewables, Not Nukes, in the House Energy Bill

This Friday, the House of Representatives is likely to vote on a new energy bill. While much of the public debate has been focused on the fight for increased standards for renewable energy and fuel economy, the nuclear industry has been working behind the scenes to secure government subsidies for a wish list of new power plants.

Yesterday, the New York Times reported1 that nuclear power industry lobbyists were able to bury a provision in the Senate energy bill without review. Unless the House takes action to block these subsidies, we could end up with an energy bill that provides $25 billion for new nuclear power plants compared to only $4 billion for alternative energy.

American taxpayers want to support clean energy including solar and wind, not new nuclear plants. Congress has subsidized the nuclear industry for decades, but it is still an inherently dangerous source of power with no long-term solution for the high-level radioactive waste. If the nuclear industry can't compete economically by now, our government should not be propping them up any further.

Congress should reject this giveaway to the nuclear power industry, and fund renewable energy instead. We need to increase our use of homegrown renewable resources like wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass to at least 20 percent of America's electricity consumption by 2020.

This energy legislation in the House will likely be the best chance we have this year to stop funding new nuclear plants, increase our support for renewable energy, and step up the fight against global warming.

Tell your representative we need to fully fund renewable energy, not new nuclear plants.


Energy Bill Aids Expansion Of Atomic Power

And who is the most fervent voice FOR the loan guarantees that we will pay for when they sour? Pete Domenici, a Republican. So when I meet someone who claims to be a Democrat yet only pushes nuclear while not even entertaining anything else, I really begin to wonder whose side they are really on.

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