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“Clean Energy Bank” to Write Blank Check for Nuclear Industry

Posted in Energy, Nuclear, tagged congressional budget office, jay inslee, jeff bingaman, kay bailey hutchinson, Loan Guarantees, nirs, nuclear industry, nuclear information and resource service, Nuclear Power, senate energy committee on May 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Buried in the language of the “Clean Energy Bank” legislation sponsored by Senate Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman and Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) is a blank check to the nuclear industry. This bill includes unlimited availability of taxpayer loan guarantees for construction of new nuclear reactors. Unlimited guaranteed loans. As in, as many as the [...]

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Climate Change Bill Suffers from Backroom Dealings, Industry Influence

Posted in Global Warming, tagged auction, charlie rangel, clean energy bank, climate change, coal and oil industry, Congress, energy and commerce, energy prices, Environmental Protection Agency, ferc, fossil fuels, Global Warming, goldman sachs, highly regressive, james hansen, john wellinghoff, Obama administration, pollution allowances, Public Citizen, renewable energy, sustainable energy, temple of doom, tyson slocum, Waxman, ways and means on May 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Over the weekend we had a little more time to look over the language in the American Clean Energy and Security Act, and have found it wanting. Check out this thoughtful statement from our Energy Program Director for the skinny on the bill and what went wrong: Statement of Tyson Slocum, Director of the Energy [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round-Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ahmed rashid, bay area houston, bluedaze, bosskitty, brains and eggs, bush administration, couldbetrue, Denton, department of education, easter lemming liberal news, eye on williamson, Gene Green, hunger, jim olson, john carter, john coby, left of college station, liberaltexan, mcblogger, mean rachel, mother's day, neil durrance, off the kuff, Pakistan, progressive activists, Rick Perry, south texas chisme, stimulus money, texas freedom network, texas kaos, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, three wise men, toxic drilling waste, truthhugger, txsharon, unemployment insurance, wcnews, weekly roundup, whosplayin, xanthippas on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s Monday, and that means it is time for another edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance’s weekly round-up. At Bluedaze, TXsharon asks: What are the chances that an industry in charge of conducting its own testing to determine waste disposal methods will find toxin levels too high if that means disposal of the waste will [...]

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