{news} Fw: GREEN RELEASE Greens to Senate: Reject nuke-friendly energy bill

[Tom Sevigny]

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> GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
> http://www.gp.org
>
> For Immediate Release:
> Thursday, June 23, 2005
>
> Contacts:
> Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624,
> mclarty at greens.org
> Nancy Allen, Media Coordinator, 207-326-4576,
> nallen at acadia.net
>
>
> GREENS TO SENATE: REJECT THE McCAIN-LIEBERMAN ACT,
> WHICH WOULD SUBSIDIZE DANGEROUS NUCLEAR POWER
>
>
> WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party leaders are urging the
> Senate to reject the McCain-Lieberman Climate
> Stewardship Act, calling the bill an effort to
> subsidize nuclear energy as a way to combat global
> warming.
>
> The bill repeats earlier failed legislation that would
> combine mandatory caps on carbon dioxide emissions
> with a credit-trading system modeled after the Clean
> Air Act, and adds incentives for nuclear development
> ($6.1 billion in the recently passed House version;
> $4.3 billion in the Senate bill).
>
> Greens have called market-based solutions to global
> warming severely inadequate and warn that the dangers
> of nuclear power are insurmountable.
>
> "Democrats and Republicans have turned the need for
> sound energy policy into a choice between suffering
> the effects of catastrophic climate change and the
> massive accumulation of deadly radioactive waste from
> nuclear power," said Jody Grage Haug, co-chair of the
> Green Party of the United States.  "The only rational
> response to the threat of global warming is a plan
> that phases out fossil fuel and nuclear power,
> develops clean, renewable energy sources, and reduces
> energy consumption."
>
> Greens, while criticizing the Kyoto Protocols' modest
> measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, have
> called it an important first step, and continue to
> urge the U.S. to sign on and expand its goals.
>
> "By ignoring energy conservation and embracing nuclear
> power, Democrats and Republicans who say they care
> about global warming have proved themselves only
> marginally better than President Bush," said David
> Cobb, the Green Party's 2004 presidential candidate.
> "Nuclear power is expensive, it would require the
> addition of 1,500 new plants worldwide to replace
> fossil fuel energy, it would present an enormous
> security and public health risk, and the storage of
> nuclear waste would be a permanent and growing
> environmental crisis.
>
> "Furthermore, nuclear power does nothing to address
> the major source of CO2 emissions -- cars, trucks, and
> airplanes," Mr. Cobb added.  "But Congress and the
> White House have refused to enact and enforce more
> stringent fuel economy standards, such as the
> Corporate Average Fuel Economy [CAFE] rules, or
> introduce consumer incentives to reduce demand,
> because of industry pressure."
>
>
> MORE INFORMATION
>
> Green Party of the United States
> http://www.gp.org
> 1700 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 404
> Washington, DC 20009.
> 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
> Fax 202-319-7193
>
> "Energy: Ignoring the Obvious Fix"
> By Thane Peterson, Business Week, June 20, 2005
>
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jun2005/nf20050620_6725_db045.htm
> http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/062105EB.shtml
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