Remove Nuclear & Coal Subsidies from Climate Bill-call Senators

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TELL PRESIDENT OBAMA: DON'T LET THE SENATE CLIMATE BILL GET HIJACKED BY

THE NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY!

June 30, 2009

 

Dear Friends,

 

Now that the House has finished its version of the climate bill, it's time

to turn our attention back to the Senate-and to the White House.

 

President Obama issued a statement praising passage of the House bill that

said, in part, " The energy bill that passed the House will finally create

a set of incentives that will spark a clean energy transformation in our

economy. It will spur the development of low carbon sources of energy -

everything from wind, solar, and geothermal power to safer nuclear energy and

cleaner coal. "

 

But there was nothing in the bill that would make nuclear power any

" safer, " and " clean coal " remains an oxymoron.

 

*We need to tell President Obama not to let the climate bill get hijacked

by the nuclear power and coal industries. _You can do so here_

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Background

The Senate Energy Committee already has passed an absolutely unacceptable

energy bill, one that allows a nine-member unelected Board to give

unlimited taxpayer loan guarantees for new reactor construction and " clean

coal "

plants, supports nuclear as a " clean and secure domestic energy for the US, "

and provides new support for dangerous, proliferation-prone reprocessing

technologies.

 

The game plan in the Senate appears to be this: Sen. Barbara Boxer's

Environment and Public Works Committee will soon begin public work on their

version of the cap-and-trade climate legislation. The Senate energy bill, or a

version of it, will be incorporated into the climate bill and brought to

the floor for a vote.

 

We need to make sure that the nuclear subsidies in the Senate energy bill

do not become part of the Senate climate bill and that additional

subsidies for nuclear power are not added. And a good first step (and there

will be

many more steps in the near future…) is to tell President Obama to get

this outrageous support for the nuclear industry out of the climate bill.

 

We need to explain, simply and firmly, that we will oppose any climate

bill that provides more taxpayer subsidies for nuclear power or that supports

reprocessing (even before Obama's own waste commission has even been

formed to begin its re-evaluation of radioactive waste policy!).

 

The House climate bill must be strengthened in the Senate, not become

worse. President Obama wants a climate bill. That's a vast improvement over his

predecessor. But he needs to act so that the final climate bill is one

that environmentalists and clean energy advocates can support, not one we

have to end up defeating.

_*Please write President Obama here._

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industry is spending millions to get its way in Congress this session. Every

small contribution helps us reach more people and counter their actions!

Thanks for all you do!

Michael Mariotte

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